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50 free Sea of Thieves trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Sea of Thieves hands a crew a ship, a map and very little else, then lets the ocean do the rest. Since 2018 it has grown from a sparse sandbox into one of the biggest shared-world adventures around, with players swapping stories of narrow escapes, stolen treasure and battles that began with a friendly wave. This quiz covers the whole of that world. There are questions on the ships and how to crew them, the trading companies and what each one pays for, the sea monsters and skeleton lords that stand between a crew and its loot, and the famous guests who have dropped anchor in crossover campaigns. A few go behind the scenes, to the studio that made the game, the ideas it borrowed and the decisions that shaped it. It is written for anyone who has ever bailed water with one hand and steered with the other, from fresh deckhands to players with thousands of hours at sea. Expect a mix of easy wins and deep cuts for the crew member who reads every journal.
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Q 01Which golden fruit, valued at £20,000 apiece, did Microsoft offer winners of The Quest, its Sea of Thieves riddle hunt?
Banana
Golden bananas, four in all, were the prizes in The Quest, an alternate reality game of riddles that Microsoft ran around the 2018 launch. In the game itself the fruit is a pirate's everyday snack for restoring health.
Q 02Which monster of Norwegian sailors' lore can rise beneath a Sea of Thieves ship and turn the water inky black?
Kraken
Kraken tentacles, up to eight at a time, wrap the hull, slap the deck and suck pirates into their mouths. The beast only strikes in open water, and it slows its target to a crawl.
Q 03Which ghost ship carries dead Sea of Thieves pirates until a door opens and lets them return to their crew?
Ferry of the Damned
Ferry of the Damned is sailed by the mysterious Ferryman, and the wait aboard depends on the size of a pirate's crew. Pirates then reappear on their own ship with full health and ammunition.
Q 04Which film pirate do players rescue and recruit in A Pirate's Life, the 2021 Disney story campaign for Sea of Thieves?
Jack Sparrow
Jack Sparrow arrives aboard the Black Pearl, only for sirens to attack and capture his crew. The free campaign runs to five story chapters and spent about two years in development.
Q 05Which 1985 film about friends hunting pirate treasure did a Sea of Thieves designer liken the game to?
The Goonies
The Goonies was the parallel drawn by designer Mike Chapman, who saw the same bond between friends on a treasure hunt they would always remember. The Pirates of the Caribbean films shaped the look and tone too.
Q 06Which British studio, famous for GoldenEye 007 and Donkey Kong Country, created the pirate adventure Sea of Thieves?
Rare
Rare put almost all of its 200 staff on the game and dropped its famous secrecy to do it. More than 30,000 fans joined a programme that let them test early builds and talk to the team.
Q 07What shape is the huge grey cloud that marks an active fortress raid in Sea of Thieves?
A skull
A skull in the sky tells crews across the server that skeletons have stashed stronghold treasure in the fortress vault. The cloud is visible from far away, which draws rival crews to the same raid.
Q 08Which sea creature surfaces beside a stranded Sea of Thieves pirate, ready to carry them back to their ship?
A mermaid
A mermaid appears when a pirate strays far from their ship or the ship sinks, waving a staff that sends up a pillar of green smoke. Taking the lift means leaving behind whatever the pirate was holding.
Q 09Which drink fills every Sea of Thieves pirate's tankard and leaves them staggering after a few too many?
Grog
Grog blurs a pirate's vision, sets them swaying and, after enough tankards, brings on vomiting. A drunk crewmate struggles to handle the wheel, the cannons and even a rowboat.
Q 10What can a Sea of Thieves pirate do to stop a captured snake from hissing and spitting venom?
Play music
Play music near a snake and it sways along, charmed, and will not attack. Left uncharmed, a basketed snake can still spray its carrier and even kill other animals stored nearby.
Q 11The pale Shrouded Ghost is the most elusive variety of which prehistoric giant that stalks ships in Sea of Thieves?
Megalodon
Megalodon sharks come in several varieties, and the pearl-grey Shrouded Ghost turns up far less often than the rest. A hunt begins when a tense theme strikes up and a fin rises behind the ship.
Q 12Which LucasArts adventure series starring Guybrush Threepwood received a three-part Sea of Thieves crossover in 2023?
Monkey Island
Monkey Island follows the hapless Guybrush as he tries to become a notorious pirate and foil the undead LeChuck. The free expansion was the second time the game borrowed a famous pirate world, after Disney's.
Q 13Which captain of the Flying Dutchman is the main villain of the Sea of Thieves story campaign A Pirate's Life?
Q 21The first Sea of Thieves prototype was built in Unity, but which rival toolkit powers the finished game?
Unreal Engine 4
Unreal Engine 4 marked a break with tradition, because the studio had always built its games on technology of its own. The Unity prototype took five months and persuaded Microsoft to approve the project.
Q 22Which 2002 Nintendo adventure inspired the Sea of Thieves team's sense of travel, exploration and discovery?
The Wind Waker
The Wind Waker, a Zelda game, sends Link across the Great Sea in a talking sailboat with a pirate captain for an ally. Joe Neate, one of the Sea of Thieves leads, named it when describing the feeling his team was chasing.
Q 23Which rival console received Sea of Thieves in April 2024, six years after the game launched on Xbox and PC?
Davy Jones
Davy Jones arrives from the Pirates of the Caribbean films, in a campaign that also borrows from the Disney theme park ride. Sailors were blaming him for drownings long before cinema: his name was in print by 1726.
Q 14Which natural hazard threatens every crew that lands in the Devil's Roar region of Sea of Thieves?
Volcanoes
Volcanoes there can erupt at any time, hurling burning rock and boiling the sea around an island. The risk pays: treasure found in the region is worth well above its ordinary price.
Q 15Which Sea of Thieves trading company, run by seers in purple tents, sends crews to hunt down skeleton captains?
Order of Souls
Order of Souls mystics have learned to draw memories out of the remains of dead captains, so they pay for every bounty a crew brings back. Their quests name the island where each captain's crew will rise.
Q 16What is the only kind of reward that gold and reputation can unlock for a Sea of Thieves pirate?
Cosmetic items
Cosmetic items are all a veteran has to show for hundreds of hours, because every sword and hull performs the same. The designers wanted newcomers and old hands to be able to sail together.
Q 17Which nimble vessel, the smallest in Sea of Thieves, is built for a crew of just one or two pirates?
Sloop
Sloop crews give up cannons and toughness for agility, so a skilled pair can outmanoeuvre the bigger vessels that outgun them. It was also designed to shrug off ramming better than its rivals.
Q 18What can a Sea of Thieves crew do to a disruptive crewmate by majority vote?
Lock them in the brig
A vote to lock them in the brig is the game's answer to troublemakers: the cell sits on the lowest deck and the sentence lasts at least ten minutes. Prisoners can still play shanties behind bars.
Q 19Which title does a Sea of Thieves player earn by reaching rank 50 with three of the trading companies?
Pirate Legend
Pirate Legend status opens a secret hideout, the Tavern of Legends, and a special trading company that deals only with holders of the title.
Q 20What are the story-driven Sea of Thieves quests called, first added in the 2019 Anniversary update?
Tall Tales
Tall Tales gave the game its first structured stories, a year after it launched with no narrative at all. The designers had feared a scripted plot would stop players making their own adventures.
PlayStation 5
PlayStation 5 owners made it the platform's most downloaded game in North America the following month. It was the first title its studio had ever released on a Sony console.
Q 24Which Microsoft subscription service offered Sea of Thieves to members on the very day it launched?
Xbox Game Pass
Xbox Game Pass accounted for half of early sales, and the studio said it reached a three-month sales target in a single day. More than a million pirates set sail within two days.
Q 25Which competitive Sea of Thieves mode, added in the Anniversary update, closed in 2022 after too few pirates played?
Arena
Arena pitted up to six crews against each other in a race to gather silver on small maps. Most players preferred the cooperative adventure, so the studio stopped updating the mode and then shut it.
Q 26Which Sea of Thieves mode, added in December 2023, lets crews sail with no threat from rival players?
Safer Seas
Safer Seas answered a complaint as old as the game: reviewers in 2018 had lamented that fighting other players could never be switched off.
Q 27Which Sea of Thieves currency, bought with real money, pays for pets and emotes in the Pirate Emporium?
Ancient Coins
Ancient Coins arrived with the Pirate Emporium in the 2019 update Smuggler's Fortune. They can also be won in play, from a blue and gold skeleton that digs itself out of the ground with a clatter.
Q 28Which trophies, taken from rival ships, do the Reaper's Bones of Sea of Thieves reward pirates for handing in?
Emissary flags
Emissary flags mark a ship as sailing for one of the trading companies, which makes it prey for crews loyal to the Reaper's Bones. The same company buys any kind of treasure, stolen or found.
Q 29Which animals, delivered for the Merchant Alliance in Sea of Thieves, will starve unless they are fed fruit on the way?
Pigs
Pigs cry loudly and slump in their crates when hungry, and die if ignored for long. One sold on a Merchant Alliance contract fetches about ten times its usual price.
Q 30Who voiced the shopkeepers and tavern keepers of Sea of Thieves when the game launched in 2018?
Its own developers
Its own developers voiced the launch cast, a homespun touch for a game their studio head called the most ambitious project the company had attempted.