Who wrote the pirate adventure novel 'Treasure Island'?
AnswerRobert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson's 1883 novel gave us Long John Silver and many popular pirate images.
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Pirate facts & stats
7 fact-checked facts about pirates, each with the reason behind it. 5 more are in today's round and join this page after it closes.
The basics
Anne Bonny and Mary Read are famous in history for what?
AnswerBeing women who sailed as pirates
Bonny and Read sailed with 'Calico Jack' Rackham in the Caribbean and were captured in 1720.
Going deeper
'Pieces of eight' were silver coins from which country?
AnswerSpain
Pieces of eight were Spanish silver dollars worth eight reales.
The Barbary pirates operated from which coast?
AnswerNorth Africa
Barbary corsairs sailed from ports such as Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, raiding Mediterranean shipping.
What was the name of Blackbeard's flagship?
AnswerQueen Anne's Revenge
Blackbeard renamed a captured French ship the Queen Anne's Revenge and armed it with about 40 guns.
Expert level
Which Caribbean pirate haven was largely destroyed by an earthquake in 1692?
AnswerPort Royal, Jamaica
A 1692 earthquake sank much of Port Royal into the sea.
Blackbeard was killed in battle in 1718 near which island?
AnswerOcracoke Island, North Carolina
Blackbeard died fighting a Royal Navy force led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard at Ocracoke Inlet.
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