Monsters
Women
Danger!
Magic
Random
100
The type of monster that has one large eye and an appetite for human flesh.
What is a cyclops?
100
Odysseus' wife
Who is Penelope?
100
The sailors put this substance in their ears to avoid the Siren song.
What is wax?
100
Odysseus must sacrifice this in order to speak to the blind prophet of the underworld.
What is a cow/heifer?
100
Odysseus is disguised as this when he returns home to his kingdom.
What is a beggar?
200
These women lure men to their deaths with an irresistable song.
Who are the Sirens?
200
This woman kills herself by walking into the ocean because she misses Odysseus too much.
Who is his mother?
200
______________ has cursed Odysseus and that is why it takes him so many years to get home.
Who is Poseidon?
200
Odysseus must do this in order to free his men of the curse the Circe has placed on them.
What is sleep with Circe?
200
Odysseus' wife test the suitors by asking them to complete a task with this weapon.
What is the great bow?
300
Scylla eats this number of men from Odysseus' ship.
What is six?
300
This woman recognizes Odysseus by the scar on his foot.
Who is his old nanny/nurse?
300
Eating this plant makes people forget their hopes, dreams, and goals.
What is lotus?
300
This god uses his magic to sink the ship and kill all of Odysseus' remaining men.
Who is Zeus?
300
Odysseus' homeland
What is Ithaca?
400
The name of the cyclops that trapped Odysseus and his men.
Who is Polyphemus?
400
This sorceress turns Odysseus' men into pigs.
Who is Circe?
400
The last of Odysseus' crew is doomed to death after they kill this god's sacred cattle.
Who is Helios/Apollo?
400
Hermes gives Odysseus this magical plant which resembles garlic to help him fight off Circe's powerful spells.
What is moly?
400
Author of The Odysseus
Who is Homer?
500
This was a swirling whirlpool that nearly killed Odysseus and his men.
What is Charybdis?
500
Odysseus stays for seven years on the nymph's island until Zeus orders her to set him free.
Who is Calypso?
500
This blind prophet warns Odysseus of the dangers ahead.
Who was Teirisias?
500
This king gives Odysseus a bag with the power of the winds in it, but when Odysseus' men open it they are blown off course.
Who is Aeolus?
500
The name of the author's other famous work that covers the Trojan War.
What is the Iliad?
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