Pirates & Explorers Trivia

Long before satellites and GPS, mapping the world meant sailing toward the edge of it and hoping the edge wasn't real. This quiz covers the navigators who charted new coastlines and the outlaws who preyed on the ships that followed them.

The Age of Discovery

Driven by trade routes, royal funding, and no small amount of ego, European explorers spent the 15th through 18th centuries mapping coastlines, crossing oceans, and — often — colliding with the people who already lived there.

The Golden Age of Piracy

The same shipping lanes that made exploration profitable also made them a target. The so-called Golden Age of Piracy, roughly the 1650s through the 1730s, produced the buccaneers whose reputations still show up in movies and Halloween costumes today.