Pirates are in the news these days. Although modern pirates have exchanged their picturesque sailing vessels for high-octane motorboats, swashbuckling swords for frighteningly efficient assault weapons, the damask waistcoat for amphibious attack-friendly scuba gear and treasure maps for advanced global positioning tracking devices, the non-pirate’s uneasy fascination with these paradoxically romantic characters remains robust as ever. How much do you know about the pirates of yore?

A substantial portion of the material in the quiz comes courtesy of David Cordingly’s Under the Black Flag, which is a quick, yet captivating, read separating the glamorous myth about pirates from the grotesque reality. Heave to, drop sail and weigh anchor me hearties…a pirate quiz it be.