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

Both women escaped the gallows in 1720 by 'pleading the belly'; Read died in prison in Spanish Town, Jamaica, the following year, probably of fever.

Q 02/05

What was the birth name of the infamous pirate Blackbeard?

A) Henry Avery

B) William Kidd

C) Edward Teach

D) Bartholomew Roberts

Answer · why

C) Edward Teach

Blackbeard was born Edward Teach (also spelled Thatch), probably in Bristol around 1680; he was killed in a boarding action off Ocracoke, North Caroli...

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) Black Pearl

C) Royal Fortune

D) Sea Serpent

Answer · why

A) Queen Anne's Revenge

He renamed La Concorde the Queen Anne's Revenge; she ran aground in Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, in June 1718, and divers located the wreck there i...

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 parley is to talk terms with an enemy under a truce; the word comes from the French 'parler', to speak, and Pirates of the Caribbean turned it into...

Q 05/05

Which pirate word originally meant the Caribbean hunters who slow-smoked meat on a wooden frame, from an Arawak word for that frame?

A) Corsair

B) Buccaneer

C) Privateer

D) Freebooter

Answer · why

B) Buccaneer

Buccaneer comes from the Arawak 'buccan', the wooden frame on which Tainos and Caribs smoked meat, often manatee; the name moved to the Anglo-French r...