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	75%
Which ruler of Pharos plundered cities in the Cyclades and Peloponnese during the Illyrian Wars?	Demetrius	67%
Who was born after 1600?	François l'Olonnais	67%
Which of these ships is fictional?	Hispaniola	63%
Which part of the world did the pirate Chen Zuyi terrorise?	Southeast Asia	54%
Which pirates' intact body was not gibbeted after death?	Blackbeard	50%
Which of these women was a pirate?	Ching Shih	50%
Which of these singers had a name similar to a real pirate (only one letter different)?	James Brown	50%
Hayreddin Barbarossa, formerly a corsair, became the Kapudan Pasha or Grand Admiral under which Ottoman sultan?	Suleiman the Magnificent	50%
Which of these leagues had to contend with pirates?	Hanseatic	46%
Pirates from which modern country raided the coastlines of China and Korea between the 4th and 16th centuries?	Japan	42%
Where did the Barbary pirates not take slaves from?	Madagascar	42%
Which British monarch did Grace O'Malley meet?	Elizabeth I	38%
Which of these did not appear on either of Black Bart's flags?	A chest	33%
Which of these was a real sailing route?	Pirate Round	21%