Famous Pirates
He was known for lighting fuses in his beard to scare enemies.
Who is Blackbeard?
Pirates used this name for stolen goods—gold, sugar, rum, silk, anything with value.
This is the name of the flag flown by pirates, generally.
What is the Jolly Roger?
True or False: Pirates usually buried treasure.
False
This was the punishment for being convicted of piracy.
What is execution?
This privateer was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
Instead of strict navy rules, pirates used a written set of rules voted on by the crew.
What are Pirate Codes (Articles)?
This happened to one in seven ships.
What is being shipwrecked?
This legal pirate type attacked enemies with government permission.
What is a privateer?
This deadly punishment involved abandoning a sailor with little food and water.
What is marooning?
This Irish “Pirate Queen” challenged English rule and even negotiated with Queen Elizabeth I.
Who is Grace O’Malley?
This vote-based decision method helped choose captains and settle disputes.
What is democracy / voting?
This is the name of Blackbeard's ship.
What is Queen Anne's Revenge?
This punishment became a pirate stereotype, but rarely happened, historically.
What is walking the plank?
True or False: Pirates often buried their treasure.
False
He started as a respected sailor, was hired as a privateer, and then was executed for piracy in 1701.
Who is William Kidd (Captain Kidd)?
What is the name of the sickness caused by not getting enough vitamin C?
What is scurvy?
This famous shipwreck, found in 1984, proved the real life of piracy—including weapons, gold, and enslaved people’s history.
What is the Whydah?
Pieces of eight was the popular name for this.
What is a Spanish silver dollar?
This punishment—being tied to a rope and dragged under a ship—could kill a sailor.
What is keelhauling?
These two women dressed as men and fought as pirates in the Caribbean.
Who are Anne Bonny and Mary Read?
These ships were more strict and had more hierarchy than pirate ships.
What is a Royal Navy ship (press-ganged/impressment)?
The Spanish King and Queen who funded Columbus's exploration.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
Most pirate “treasure” came from stealing these everyday trade goods. Name three.
What are sugar, tobacco, cotton, rum, spices, etc.? (Trade goods)
This was a way of displaying an executed pirate at a port in order to serve a warning to others not to turn to piracy.
What is gibbetting?