Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - Test Your Knowledge of Pirate History

1. On November 22, 1718, the pirate Blackbeard was killed off the coast of what colony?

Maryland

South Carolina

Georgia

North Carolina

Virginia

2. What was the name of Blackbeard's ship?

Queen Anne's Revenge

Blackbeard's Black Ship

Pirate's Booty

Golden Ship

Shiver the Timbers

3. Which two brothers, whose nickname means Red Beard, terrorized the coast of North Africa in the early sixteenth century?

Barberouge Freres

Roter Bart

Barbarossa Brothers

Barba Ruiva

GingerAle Freres

4. Who was the first English captain (and pirate) to circumnavigate the world?

Magellan

Sir Francis Drake

Captain James Cook

Christopher Columbus

Phillip Essex

5. What pirate served as governor of Jamaica?

Bluebeard

Red Legs

Black Bart

Charles Swan

Henry Morgan

6. Which pirate is famous more for his alleged buried treasure than anything else?

Captain Morgan

Captain Kidd

Captain Black

Captain Sparrow

Captain Swashbuckler

7. Which Scottish writer created many of our modern ideas about pirates in the story Treasure Island?

Edgar Allen Poe

RM Ballantyne

James Fenimore Cooper

JM Barrie

Robert Louis Stevenson

8. The pirate Calico Jack's crew was famous for including what?

Women

Cats

Parrots

Indentured Servants

Treasure Maps

9. What country boasted the largest pirate confederation in history?

Brazil

Spain

China

England

Barbados

10. Stede Bonnet left his upper-class lifestyle to pirate the seas, becoming known as what?

Sugarcane Stede

Gentleman Pirate

Baddy Bonnet

Lord Pirate

Pirate Duke