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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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
The pirate Blackbeard's real name is usually recorded as what?
AnswerEdward Teach
Blackbeard was an English pirate known as Edward Teach or Thatch, active around 1716 to 1718.
What was a privateer?
AnswerA private ship or sailor licensed by a government to attack enemy ships
Privateers carried a letter of marque, making their raids legal against a nation's enemies in wartime.
The Barbary pirates operated from which coast?
AnswerNorth Africa
Barbary corsairs sailed from ports such as Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, raiding Mediterranean shipping.
Expert level
The word 'buccaneer' comes from 'boucan'. What was a boucan?
AnswerA wooden frame for smoking meat
Early buccaneers on Hispaniola smoked meat on boucans, and the French called them boucaniers.
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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