Famous Pirates
Famous Ships
Locations
Extraordinary Feats
Myths and Legends
100

Edward Thatch is better known as this pirate with distinctive facial hair.

Who is Black Beard

100

This 200 ton ship hosted over 40 cannons and 300 crew. With this ship Black beard terrorized the Caribbean and the coast of South Carolina. 

What is The Queen Anne's Revenge

100

Now the capital city of Cuba this port city once hosted the largest Spanish military presence in the Caribbean and as such much trade flowed through its port. 

What is Havana

100

In Blackbeard's short pirating career he is credited with plundering this many ships. 

What is thirty ships

100

Initially confused with mermaids these aquatic mammals were later revealed to be more fact than fiction.

What are Manatees

200

This welsh pirate was elected by his crew to captain the Royal James and raided the coast of Africa as well as the Caribbean. 

Who is Black Bart Roberts aka Bartholomew Roberts

200

Originally a french merchant ship this brig hosted 20 guns and was used by the notorious pirate Charles Vane. 

What is The Ranger

200

Once the largest city in the Carribean, this port city was the center for British Privateers in the late 1600s. 

What is Port Royal, Jamaica

200

According to some Legend how much gold (in pounds) did Captain William Kidd hide before he was eventually caught in 1699. 

What is 200 pounds

200

Depicted as a giant squid, this creature hunts the deepest reaches of the ocean and is supposedly responsible for some ship wrecks  in the Bermuda triangle. 

What is The Kraken

300

Once the 1st mate to pirate Charles Vane, this pirate was known for his fine calico clothing.  

Who is "Calico" Jack Rackham

300

This English Merchant Ship was known for its long journies and was Captained by the Pirate William Kidd.

What is The Adventure

300

Once known as the Pirate Republic this island in the Bahamas was eventually annexed by England in the mid 1700s. 

What is Nassau

300

Using this part of the cannon, Blackbeard would strike fear into his enemies to more easily plunder them. 

What are fuses.

300

According to seafarers this phenomenon can be witnessed at sunset on the ocean for just a moment. To many it represents the passage of a lost soul from one plane to the next. 

What is the Green Flash

400

This Scottish pirate and privateer raided many ships in the Indian ocean and supposedly hid his treasure off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. 

Who is Captain William Kidd

400

This ship has name in common with the capital of Jamaica this Ship was home to notorious pirates Anne Bonnie, Mary Reed and Jack Rakham. 

What is The Kingston

400

Black Beard met his end off the coast of this U.S. State. 

Where is North Carolina

400

Seen as more like "guidelines" this set of rules was widely used by buccaneers, privateers and pirates and can be traced back to the famous Captain Bartholomew Roberts. 

What is the Pirate Code

400

Said to be at the bottom of the ocean this is supposedly the place where the souls of those who died at sea remain never to escape. 

What is Davy Jones' Locker

500

Unique amongst pirates these two female buccaneers served under Jack Rackham and were known as sea sirens by British sailors. 

Who are Mary Reed and Anne Bonnie

500

Unlike most Pirates of the time "Gentleman" Stede Bonett purchased his own sloop and used it to raid merchant ships across the Caribbean. 

What is The Revenge

500

Split between French, English and British Colonists this Island would become home to many Buccaneers including a group calling themselves the "Brethren of the Coast".

What is Tortuga, Haiti

500

The number of times that Blackbeard swam around his ship... without his head. 

What is three times. 

500

Sometimes appearing on an appendage and sometimes delivered on a piece of parchment by a veiled courier this omen only means on thing... DEATH!

What is The Black Spot