Q 01/05

Before hiding his treasure chest, Forrest Fenn made his fortune as what?

A) Oil wildcatter

B) Art dealer

C) Casino owner

D) Film producer

Answer · why

B) Art dealer

Art dealer: Fenn, a former Air Force fighter pilot, ran a Santa Fe gallery and said he hid the chest to get people off their couches and into the outd...

Q 02/05

Who wrote the classic adventure novel 'Treasure Island'?

A) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

B) Robert Louis Stevenson

C) Daniel Defoe

D) Herman Melville

Answer · why

B) Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson began the story on a rainy holiday in Braemar in 1881, when he drew a map of an imaginary island to amuse his stepson Lloyd and...

Q 03/05

Which pirate captured the French slave ship La Concorde in 1717 and renamed it Queen Anne's Revenge?

A) Calico Jack

B) Henry Morgan

C) Blackbeard

D) Captain Kidd

Answer · why

C) Blackbeard

Blackbeard took the slaver about 100 miles from Martinique, made it his flagship and ran it aground at Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, the following y...

Q 04/05

What outdoor activity involves using a GPS receiver or mobile device to find hidden containers?

A) Orienteering

B) Geocaching

C) Geotagging

D) Letterboxing

Answer · why

B) Geocaching

Geocaching was first called the 'Great American GPS Stash Hunt'; players swapped 'stash' for 'cache' within weeks because of the first word's negative...

Q 05/05

Which Spanish treasure galleon, lost in a 1622 hurricane, did Mel Fisher's divers finally find in 1985?

A) San José

B) Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes

C) Nuestra Señora de la Concepción

D) Nuestra Señora de Atocha

Answer · why

D) Nuestra Señora de Atocha

Nuestra Señora de Atocha went down with a treasure fleet shortly after leaving Havana; Fisher's team combed the seabed for sixteen years before reachi...