Pirate lore & myths
Sailing under a black flag with a skeleton piercing a heart, this pirate captain blockaded Charleston and sailed the Queen Anne's Revenge.
Who is Edward Thatch/Blackbeard?
If you get tricked into clicking a disguised link that opens the music video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," you have been hit with this classic prank.
What is a Rickroll?
An old man ties thousands of balloons to his house to run away from his problems, only to realize he accidentally kidnapped a small child.
What is Up?
If a doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one every half hour, this is the total number of minutes it will take before you have taken all of them.
What is 60 minutes?
A gray box from the 80s that only works if you violently blow into grey plastic rectangles like a harmonica before jamming them inside.
What is the Nintendo Entertainment System?
To scare enemy ships into surrendering without a fight, pirates flew a flag featuring a skull and crossbones, universally known by this two-word nickname.
What is the Jolly Roger?
Combining a Japanese VOCALOID song called "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" with an animated pop-tart cat GIF, this internet "sensation" flew across the web leaving a trailing rainbow in its wake.
Who is Nyan Cat?
A eccentric candy billionaire invites five children into his dangerous factory, watches four of them get mutated or sucked into heavy machinery by his orange factory workers, and rewards the survivor with the keys to the building.
What is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
If you flip a fair coin nine times and it lands on heads every single time, the mathematical probability that the tenth flip will also be heads is this percentage.
What is 50%?
A portable brick that runs on four AA batteries, features a blurry, pea-green screen with zero backlight, and has a start button that inevitably stops working after a few years of heavy use.
What is the Game Boy?
According to sailor superstition, if you ever find yourself at the bottom of the ocean after a shipwreck, you are said to be resting in this mythical character's locker.
What is Davy Jones's Locker?
This song created the hilarious, viral green-screen meme features a giant, floating cowboy in the sky aggressively screaming over a scenic mountain range.
What is Big Enough?
A teenage girl is transported to a colorful magical land via a natural disaster, kills the first person she meets, and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but 9 of them suddenly run away through a broken fence. This is the exact number of sheep the farmer has left.
What is 9?
A giant, heavy black monolith from the early 2000s that sounded like a jet engine taking off every time you turned it on, famous for displaying a terrifying red screen of death if your disc had a single scratch.
What is the PlayStation 2?
During the Golden Age of Piracy, hundreds of outlaws set up a lawless "Pirate Republic" base in this specific Caribbean port city, located in the Bahamas.
What is Nassau?
Originating from a misunderstanding of a meme image, this bread loaf is famously used as an unexpected weapon to whack a cartoon character over the head.
What is a baguette?
A giant purple alien who is obsessed with jewelry and rock collecting decides the best way to solve global resource shortages is to snap.
What is Avengers?
If you take any whole number, multiply it by 9, and then add the individual digits of the answer together, they will always eventually add up to this single-digit number.
What is 9?
A shiny white console that forced entire families to violently swing plastic sticks at their television screens, occasionally throwing the controller straight through the glass.
What is the Nintendo Wii?
This legendary phantom ship is cursed to sail the open oceans forever without being able to dock, and seeing it is considered a terrible omen of doom.
What is the Flying Dutchman?
This famous, unbothered online catchphrase and meme template is used to dismiss someone's overly dramatic or technical rant by simply telling then to go outside and feel the lawn.
What is "Touch Grass"?
A bunch of scientists decide that cloning giant, extinct apex predators and putting them behind a single electric fence on an island with terrible IT support is a great business model.
What is Jurassic Park?
If you take any 3-digit number with different digits, reverse it, subtract the smaller from the larger, reverse that answer, and add them together, you will always get this exact "magic" number.
What is 1089?
A folding plastic rectangle.
What is the Nintendo DS?