1. Who eventually decapitated Edward Teach?2. What terrible death did Henry Morgan suffer?
3. Jack Rackham is known for his two female fellow pirates. One was Mary Read - who was the other?
4. What happened at Captain Kidd's first hanging at Wapping?5. Whom did Grace O'Malley petition at Greenwich?
Answers [usual method]
1. Lieutenant Robert Maynard; 2. not terrible - he possibly died of disease at his home; 3. Anne Bonny; 4. the rope broke; 5. Queen Elizabeth
You don't fool me twice. It reminds me of when I was a kid, why go through tracing which route gets to the centre of the maze when you can simply take the one route out of the maze.
ReplyDeleteThe only one I knew without having to Google is the chav who wasn't about to be hanging about.
There's a lack of pirates in my life. Well, Captain Silver, ... and Grace O'Malley, which makes it Higham 4 - Jeating 1. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd it isn't even 'Talk Like a Pirate Day'!
ReplyDeleteI managed 3
Arr Yarr Arr...
ReplyDeleteWith the amount of rum he used to drink Morgan probably doesn't know that he's dead yet
I see Ordovicius knows how to talk like a Pirate ;-)
ReplyDeleteAs no one else has said it, "Arr , Jim-lad".
ReplyDeleteWelshcakes is a true pirate too ;-)
ReplyDeleteProfound thoughts, folks. :)
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