History trivia
Name a famous pirate, real or fictional
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 142 answers to “Name a famous pirate, real or fictional”, and only 5 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Blackbeard
- Captain Hook
- Jack Sparrow
- Long John Silver
- Captain Kidd
Just below the surface
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Anne Bonny
- Mary Read
- Henry Morgan
- Calico Jack
- Black Bart
- Barbossa
- Davy Jones
- Francis Drake
- Grace O'Malley
- Barbarossa
- Luffy
- Captain Pugwash
- Ching Shih
- Mr Smee
- Dread Pirate Roberts
- Captain Flint
- Jean Lafitte
- Stede Bonnet
- Henry Every
- Black Sam Bellamy
- Captain Blood
- Will Turner
- Elizabeth Swann
- Billy Bones
- Charles Vane
- Captain Feathersword
- Red Rackham
How the answers sink
- The Tip5 answers · 10 ptsBlackbeard · Captain Hook · Jack Sparrow
- Below the Surface27 answers · 25 ptsAnne Bonny · Mary Read · Henry Morgan …
- The Deep57 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss52 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 57 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U and W. The Abyss has 52 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 142 answers in total, 114 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Nami”. Longest: “Dread Pirate Roberts”.
- C, B and J are the most common first letters; together they start 36% of the answers.
- 58 answers can be typed more than one way: “Duguay-Trouin” counts as René Duguay-Trouin.
How to go deeper
- More answers begin with C than with any other letter (21). Run through it first.
- Skip Blackbeard, Captain Hook and Jack Sparrow; everybody says them.
- Remember the ones with short reigns and odd nicknames.
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People also ask
- What are the most common answers to “Name a famous pirate, real or fictional”?
- Most people start with Blackbeard, Captain Hook, Jack Sparrow, Long John Silver and Captain Kidd. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a famous pirate, real or fictional”?
- 142 in all: 5 on The Tip, 27 Below the Surface, 57 in The Deep, 52 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a famous pirate, real or fictional”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Nami” and the longest is “Dread Pirate Roberts”.
- Is “Name a famous pirate, real or fictional” an easy or a hard prompt?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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