The fake identity Edmond Dantes creates for himself.
Who is the the Count of Monte Cristo?
100
The great war that Odysseus took part in before beginning his journey back home in The Odyssey.
What is the Trojan War?
100
This blind prophet reluctantly and angrily tells Oedipus that he is the true murderer of Laios.
Who is Teiresias?
100
shield; protection.
What is aegis?
100
This man in Oedipus the king said,"Let it break! Let everything break! I must discover who I am, know the secret of my birth, no matter how humble, how vile."
Who is Oedipus?
200
The original love interest of Edmond Dantes.
Who is Mercedes?
200
The god that is in favor of Odysseus' return home.
What is Athena?
200
This group of Theban elders who councils the king and voice their opinion on the events of the play.
What is the chorus?
200
ordinary or dull
What is pedestrian?
200
This man in The Count of Monte Cristo said, "To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity."
Who is the Count of Monte Cristo?
300
The prison in which The Count of Monte Cristo is imprisoned in for 14 years.
What is the Chateau d'If?
300
Odysseus was trapped in this nymph's island for 7 years.
Who is Calypso?
300
The answer to the riddle given by the sphinx.
What is man?
300
to lessen seriousness by providing partial excuses
What is extenuate?
300
This man in The Odyssey said, "Dear friends, no need for stealth: here's a young weaver singing a pretty song to set the air atingle on these lawns and paven courts. Goddess she is, or lady. Shall we greet her?"
Who is Polites?
400
The object which the captain of the Pharoan gives Edmond that allows him to access to visit the usurper.
What is a ring?
400
The leader of Penelope's suitors and the first man who Odysseus kills in The Death at the Palace.
Who is Antinuos?
400
The city of Thebes when facing the disasters is described as mimicking this fictional location.
What is hell?
400
done without care; in a routine fashion.
What is perfunctory?
400
This man in Star Wars a New Hope said, "The Jedi are extinct, their fire has gone out of the universe. You, my friend, are all that's left of their religion."
Who is General Tarkin?
500
The last thing that the Count of Monte Cristo tells Maximilian and Valentine.
What is "wait and hope?"
500
The number of men that the witch Circe turns into pigs.
Who are the 22 men?
500
The act of Oedipus blinding himself with his wives golden brooches is foreshadowed by the chorus using what analogy.
What is the analogy of Apollo firing a fiery arrow into the eyes of the Thebes's enemies?
500
a curse
What is imprecation?
500
This man said in Oedipus the King, "How can I say that what you did was right? Better to be dead than live blind."