What is mermaids, flying dutchman, evil eyes, weather, fishing, etc.
100
What is the usual educational level of a common sailor?
What is illiterate (unable to read and write).
100
Why did most women choose to become a sailor?
What is freedom.
100
Who and/or how does one become a pirate?
What is a sailor/privateer who steals and robs during times of peace.
100
Whales were hunted most importantly for...?
What is oil.
200
What were mermaids commonly mistaken for?
What is manatees and dugongs (Order Sirenians)
200
(True or False) It was easy to become wealthy after working as a sailor for a few years.
What is False.
200
How were women viewed on naval vessels?
What is viewed as bad luck.
200
The Jolly Rogers is...?
What is any of the various flags flown to identify a ship's crew as pirates that were about to attack.
200
The weapon used to kill a whale?
What is harpoon.
300
The scientific reason the legend of the Underwater city of Atlantis is...?
What is Plate Tectonics (Convergent Plate Boundaries).
300
Was drowning a big concern to sailors?
What is yes, they could not swim.
300
Who were the first prostitutes? In other words, what type of women became prostitutes?
What is Sailor's wives,daughters, and/or sisters.
300
What was the life expectancy of a Pirate?
What is on average 2 years.
300
the name given to scroll-work, engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory. Typically it refers to the craft created by whalers made from the bones and teeth of sperm whales, the baleen of other whales, and the tusks of walruses.
What is scrimshaw.
400
Different colors shown in the water reflect different future outcomes. Red hues mean...? Yellow hues mean...?
What is impending disaster and spirits.
400
A Sea Chantey is...?
What is a type of work song that was once commonly sung to accompany labor on board large merchant sailing vessels
400
For a women aboard a ship disguised as a man, what is the hardest thing to hide?
What is facial hair (puberty).
400
(True or False) The laws governed aboard a pirate ship reflect that of a dictatorship.
What is False.
400
Define: A Nantucket Sleighride
a) The act of searching for a whale by following its
trail
b) Occurs immediately following the harpooning of a
whale
c) Part of the process of pulling the whale on to the
ship and getting it ready for processing
What is Choice B.
500
The 'Sea Devil' is the nickname for which marine organism that was believed to be able to attach themselves to the anchor and pull the entire ship into the engulfing waters?
What is the giant manta ray.
500
The first Europeans with tattoos were sailors. Where did they acquire them from? and why did they choose to get them?
What is the Indo-Pacific region and to identify as a sailor.
500
When the husband went sailing for months at a time, what did the wife usually have to do?
What is walk to the next port the husband was suppose to land in.
500
Name a real historically accurate pirate? (HINT: Captain Jack Sparrow is not correct)
What is Edward Teach (Blackbeard), William Kidd (Captain Kidd), Anne Bonny, etc.
500
Does whaling still occur today? if so, where? if not, how come?
What is Yes, Finnmark, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Spitsbergen.