Q 01/05

Which famous female pirate sailed alongside Calico Jack Rackham and Anne Bonny?

A) Mary Read

B) Jeanne de Clisson

C) Ching Shih

D) Grace O'Malley

Answer · why

A) Mary Read

Mary Read and Anne Bonny were both sentenced to hang in 1720 but won a reprieve by 'pleading the belly', claiming to be pregnant; Read died in prison ...

Q 02/05

Under which name is the pirate Blackbeard usually recorded?

A) Henry Avery

B) William Kidd

C) Edward Teach

D) Bartholomew Roberts

Answer · why

C) Edward Teach

Edward Teach, also written Thatch, is the name in the records, but it may well have been an alias, so his birth name may never be known.

Q 03/05

What did Blackbeard rename La Concorde, the French slave ship he captured and armed with 40 guns?

A) Queen Anne's Revenge

B) Adventure Galley

C) Royal Fortune

D) Quedagh Merchant

Answer · why

A) Queen Anne's Revenge

Queen Anne's Revenge served him for well under a year: in 1718 he ran her onto a sandbar at Beaufort Inlet, perhaps on purpose to shed crew and keep m...

Q 04/05

In pirate lore, what does it mean to 'parley'?

A) To talk terms with an enemy

B) To share out plunder

C) To prepare for battle

D) To hoist the black flag

Answer · why

A) To talk terms with an enemy

To talk terms with an enemy under a truce is to parley, from the French parler, 'to speak'; in Pirates of the Caribbean the heroine invokes it, only f...

Q 05/05

Which pirate word first meant the Caribbean hunters who slow-smoked meat on a wooden frame?

A) Corsair

B) Buccaneer

C) Privateer

D) Freebooter

Answer · why

B) Buccaneer

Buccaneer comes from the French boucanier, a user of the 'boucan', a native American word for the smoking frame; the hunters later took up the richer ...