"What was...?" as an open-ended question is always subject to ambiguity in how to phrase an answer, and how specific to make it. It was a pirate ship, and Blackbeard's ship, and Blackbeard's flagship, and a name applied to the Concord/La Concorde when it was captured by Blackbeard. It's additionally the title of a couple of songs.
As a common matter of style, the names of ships are generally typeset in italics, and the titles of songs in quotation marks, so you could argue "a song" is actually a better answer.
Perhaps the question would be a little better as "What kind of thing was Queen Anne's Revenge?" and prompting with two blanks (for "Blackbeard's ship" or "pirate ship"). Or maybe change what you're asking and ask for who it belonged to (which is a harder question, of course).
"What was...?" as an open-ended question is always subject to ambiguity in how to phrase an answer, and how specific to make it. It was a pirate ship, and Blackbeard's ship, and Blackbeard's flagship, and a name applied to the Concord/La Concorde when it was captured by Blackbeard. It's additionally the title of a couple of songs.
As a common matter of style, the names of ships are generally typeset in italics, and the titles of songs in quotation marks, so you could argue "a song" is actually a better answer.
Perhaps the question would be a little better as "What kind of thing was Queen Anne's Revenge?" and prompting with two blanks (for "Blackbeard's ship" or "pirate ship"). Or maybe change what you're asking and ask for who it belonged to (which is a harder question, of course).
"Nope, not specific enough."
". . . who was beheaded"
"There ya go."
Fun topic, ty.