The Action of 18 June 1793 was the first decisive and one of the most celebrated encounters between British and French frigates during the French Revolutionary Wars.
 The action occurred off Start Point in Devon, when the British frigate HMS "Nymphe" encountered and chased the French frigate "Cléopâtre".
 During the previous month, "Cléopâtre" and another frigate, "Sémillante", had been successfully raiding British merchant shipping in the English Channel and Eastern Atlantic from their base at Cherbourg.
 In response, the British frigates "Nymphe" and HMS "Venus" had been ordered to intercept and defeat the French frigates and on 27 May "Venus" and "Sémillante" fought an inconclusive engagement off Cape Finisterre.
Merchant of Venus is a board game, published in 1988 by Avalon Hill, set in an unexplored part of the galaxy during a reawakening of galactic civilization.
 Players move around the board as traders discovering long forgotten pockets of civilization and buying and selling goods.
 The game can be played by one to six players.
 In tournaments it is usually played by four players.
 The solitaire version, which relies heavily on combat with a militaristic race, has different game mechanics.
William Crabtree (1610–1644) was an astronomer, mathematician, and merchant from Broughton, then in the Hundred of Salford, Lancashire, England.
 He was one of only two people to observe and record the first predicted transit of Venus in 1639 .
Zingo!
 is a game inspired by Bingo released by ThinkFun in 2002.
John Ellis FRS (  1710 – 15 October 1776) was a British linen merchant and naturalist.
 Ellis was the first to have a published written description of the Venus flytrap and its botanical name.

Question: Zingo! and Merchant of Venus are both a what?
Answer: game