Statistics for History Quiz: Pirates

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Which privateer was the first British navigator to circumnavigate the globe?	Sir Francis Drake	74%
Which ruler of Pharos plundered cities in the Cyclades and Peloponnese during the Illyrian Wars?	Demetrius	70%
Who was born after 1600?	François l'Olonnais	65%
Which of these ships is fictional?	Hispaniola	65%
Which part of the world did the pirate Chen Zuyi terrorise?	Southeast Asia	57%
Which pirates' intact body was not gibbeted after death?	Blackbeard	52%
Which of these singers had a name similar to a real pirate (only one letter different)?	James Brown	52%
Which of these women was a pirate?	Ching Shih	48%
Hayreddin Barbarossa, formerly a corsair, became the Kapudan Pasha or Grand Admiral under which Ottoman sultan?	Suleiman the Magnificent	48%
Which of these leagues had to contend with pirates?	Hanseatic	43%
Pirates from which modern country raided the coastlines of China and Korea between the 4th and 16th centuries?	Japan	43%
Which British monarch did Grace O'Malley meet?	Elizabeth I	39%
Where did the Barbary pirates not take slaves from?	Madagascar	39%
Which of these did not appear on either of Black Bart's flags?	A chest	35%
Which of these was a real sailing route?	Pirate Round	22%