Pirates
A pirate's term for a ship's crew taking over another ship.
What is mutiny?
A marine creature that can regrow/regenerate body parts if they are damaged or eaten by a predator.
What is a starfish or sea star?
A region in the North Atlantic Ocean that is the subject of an urban legend suggesting that many aircraft, ships, and people have disappeared there under mysterious circumstances.
What is the Bermuda Triangle?
A legendary hero from Greek mythology who was the first to resist the call of the siren's song, leading to the safe passage of his crew.
Who is Odysseus?
Who is Marlin?
An open-world, shared-world adventure game in which the player assumes the role of a pirate who completes voyages from different trading companies.
What is Sea of Thieves?
A type of sea creature that (some species of) cannot die of old age.
What is the jellyfish?
A long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs commonly seen in Norway and Iceland.
What are fjords?
The name of the prince Ariel falls in love with in The Little Mermaid.
Who is Prince Eric?
The singer of the song My Heart Will Go On featured in the film The Titanic.
Who is Celine Dion?
The period between the 1650s and the 1730s, when maritime piracy was a significant factor in the histories of the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
What was The Golden Age of Piracy?
A hyper-saline, landlocked salt lake, famous as the Earth's lowest point and for extreme saltiness.
What is The Dead Sea?
The original animals that Greek sirens were half-composed of.
What are birds?
DAILY DOUBLE
Wes Anderson's fourth feature-length film about an eccentric oceanographer.
The pirate is famous for his black flag with a skull and crossbones.
Who was Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard?
The world's most venomous fish whose sting causes agonizing pain, swelling, paralysis, shock, and can be fatal.
What is the stone fish?
A small river in Italy famously crossed by Julius Caesar with his army in 49 BC, leading to a famous idiom meaning passing a point of no return.
What is the Rubicon River?
An object composed of the torso and head of a juvenile monkey sewn to the back half of a fish commonly featured in sideshows originally exhibited by P. T. Barnum.
What is a Fiji mermaid?
The disability the female romantic protagonist suffers from in the fantasy/romance film The Shape of Water.
What is mutism or muteness?
The name of Captain Hook's vessel in Peter Pan.
What is The Jolly Roger?
The fastest fish known to man, that can swim up to 68 miles per hour.
What is the sailfish?
A ring-shaped reef of coral that completely encloses a lagoon.
What is an atoll?
The ancient (and militaristic) Mesopotamian civilization who has the first account of mermaids, dating to around 1000 BC based on the fertility/sea goddess Atargatis. This civilization's territory stretched from Egypt to the Persian Gulf.
What is Assyria?
The author of the book Life of Pi, that inspired the film by the same name.
Who is Yann Martel?