Truffles, Trifles & Trivia

[GaiaGirl Pearl]

A question is posed, whomever gets the first correct answer (and is acknowledged correct by the questioner) get to pose the next question:

Here be the articles, or guidelines if ye will:

1: I will ask a question at the end of this post.
2: Post an answer if ye will.
3: If I confirm that your answer is correct, you post the next question.
4: If an answer is wrong, then the asker should use his or her judgement - give people more time, give a hint, or ask an easier question.
5: Ask reasonable questions. The goal is to have fun, not to stump everyone.
6: If someone gives an answer that is true, then it counts as correct, even if you were thinking of a different answer. For example, if you asks who was the woman who sailed with Calico Jack, and you are thinking of Mary Read, and someone answers Anne Bonny, it counts.
7: Questions do not have to be about history or even pirates, but let's try and keep it within the time frame 1750-1900.
8: If ye don't know an answer, then researching it is okay, even googling.
9: If its your turn to ask, you have three days to post yer question. After that, whoever gets there first can ask the next question.

[GaiaGirl Pearl]

Question: What legal defence did Anne Bonny use to escape the gallows in her trial for piracy?

[Stephanie Helstein]

Didn't she claim her belly as her defense, that she couldn't be hanged because she was pregnant?

[GaiaGirl Pearl]

That's correct Stephanie ... your turn to pose a question :)

[Malibu DuPont]

YAY!
A fun game to play!
TY Gaia, & nice work Stephanie!

[Stephanie Helstein]

The beard of Black Beard, the pirate, was noted for something besides its color. What was it?

[Pamus Bing]

It was braided and tied with black ribons

[Stephanie Helstein]

ROFLMFAO! I was thinking of it being braided and tied with something else.

[Oma Larnia]

He had cannon fuses tied to his hair and lit to make smoke. Made him fierce and scarey looking.

[Stephanie Helstein]

Yes, Oma! Accounts say that he wove matches into his beard or put them under his hat so that he could quickly grab them to fire his cannons. "Matches" back then were made of slow burning cord, otherwise Black Beard would quickly have become Char Beard.

Oma, it's your turn.

[Oma Larnia]

Category: Victorian Etiquette

Question: Under what age was it improper for an unmarried woman to be in the company of a man without a chaperone?

[Malibu DuPont]

82?

[Stephanie Helstein]

ROFL!!!!!! YES!!!!!