Q 01/05

Which rock guitarist inspired Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow and later played the pirate's father?

A) Pete Townshend

B) Keith Richards

C) Eric Clapton

D) Ronnie Wood

Answer · why

B) Keith Richards

Keith Richards became Depp's model after the actor decided pirates were the rock stars of their day. Richards then joined the series as Captain Teague...

Q 02/05

Pirates of the Caribbean began as a ride that opened in 1967 at which theme park?

A) Magic Kingdom

B) Knott's Berry Farm

C) Disneyland

D) Universal Studios

Answer · why

C) Disneyland

Disneyland opened the ride three months after Walt Disney died, and it was the last attraction whose building he personally oversaw. The first film fo...

Q 03/05

In The Princess Bride, which farmhand returns as the masked Dread Pirate Roberts to save Buttercup?

A) Westley

B) Fezzik

C) Inigo

D) Vizzini

Answer · why

A) Westley

Westley reveals that Dread Pirate Roberts is an inherited title, not one man. At the end of the film he offers the name to the swordsman Inigo Montoya...

Q 04/05

Which actor played the title pirate opposite Robin Williams in Steven Spielberg's 1991 film Hook?

A) Jack Nicholson

B) Al Pacino

C) Bob Hoskins

D) Dustin Hoffman

Answer · why

D) Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman played Captain James Hook, with Bob Hoskins as his first mate Smee. The film imagines Peter Pan grown up into a workaholic lawyer who h...

Q 05/05

Which animal that swallowed a ticking clock stalks Captain Hook after eating his hand in Peter Pan?

A) A shark

B) An octopus

C) A crocodile

D) A sea serpent

Answer · why

C) A crocodile

A crocodile got a taste for Hook when Peter Pan fed it the captain's severed hand, and it has pursued him ever since. The ticking is what warns Hook t...