Q 01/05

Black Sails was written as a prequel to which 1883 adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson?

A) Kidnapped

B) Treasure Island

C) Weir of Hermiston

D) The Wrecker

Answer · why

B) Treasure Island

Treasure Island takes place roughly two decades after the series, which is why younger versions of Billy Bones and Long John Silver sail in it.

Q 02/05

In the Stevenson novel that Black Sails leads into, Long John Silver names which pet after Captain Flint?

A) A monkey

B) A dog

C) A cat

D) A parrot

Answer · why

D) A parrot

A parrot gets the name Captain Flint in the book, in mockery of the captain who was said to fear only Silver himself.

Q 03/05

Which Hollywood director, a co-founder of Platinum Dunes, was an executive producer of Black Sails?

A) Michael Bay

B) Guy Ritchie

C) Gore Verbinski

D) Peter Berg

Answer · why

A) Michael Bay

Michael Bay shared the executive producer credit with Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, his partners in founding Platinum Dunes in 2001.

Q 04/05

Black Sails recreated eighteenth-century Nassau on sets and ships built at a film studio in which country?

A) New Zealand

B) Northern Ireland

C) South Africa

D) Puerto Rico

Answer · why

C) South Africa

South Africa hosted the production at Cape Town Film Studios, where building just one of the show's ships took over 300 workers.

Q 05/05

After being tortured in the season two finale of Black Sails, John Silver loses which part of his body?

A) An eye

B) A leg

C) A hand

D) An ear

Answer · why

B) A leg

A leg has to be amputated, setting him on the way to the one-legged Long John Silver of Stevenson's novel.