Monsters & Witches, Oh My!
Cleverness & Bravery?
Paramount Plot Points
History & Nerdy Stuff
Literary Theme
100

Who is the beautiful nymph that keeps Odysseus prisoner on Ogygia for seven years?

Who is Calypso

100

What is the way Odysseus and his men escape the Cyclops's cave?

What is hide under his sheep

100

Who is the son of Odysseus who helps him defeat the suitors?

Who is Telemachus

100

Who is the blind poet who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey?

Who is Homer

100

What is a long narrative peom recounting the adventures of an epic hero?

What is an Epic?

200

What is the vicious whirlpool of death Odysseus and his men face?

Charydis

200

What is the name Odysseus uses to trick the Cyclops?

What is Nohbdy

200

Who is the wife of Odysseus?

Who is Penelope

200

What is the setting of The Odyssey?

What is Ancient Greece

200

What are the brave hero, mentor, call to adventure, shadow, earth mother, innocent, all examples of?

What are archetypes

300

What is the six-headed sea monster that Odysseus and his men face? 

Who is Scylla

300

What does Penelope do to test her husband?

What is move the bed but it can't because it is built in a tree.

300

Who is the daughter of Zeus that protects and mentors Odysseus?

Who is Athena

300

What is the name of the clever military strategy that ended the Trojan War and sent Odysseus home?

What is the Trojan Horse

300

What are stories created to explain natural phenomena?

What are myths

400

Who traps Odysseus and his men in a cave?

Who is Polyphemus (the Cyclops)

400

What was the contest for Odysseus's wife's hand in marriage? Be specific

What is string bow & shoot through 12 axe heads

400

What is it that the Lotus flowers do?

What is cause people to forget

400

Who is claimed to be the most beautiful woman whose kidnapping started the Trojan War?

Who is Helen of Troy

400

What is a larger than life character who is brave and cunning yet also has human flaws?

What is an Epic Hero

500

What are the beings whose beautiful songs are irresistible that Odysseus and his men face? 

What are sirens

500

Why does the Cyclops curse Odysseus? 

What is Odysseus taunted him as he sailed away

500

What is in the bag Aeolus gives Odysseus?

What is winds

500

Who is the enchantress who transforms some of Odysseus' men into pigs?

Who is Circe

500

What is a brief description of someone that characterizes them w/o using their name?

What is Epithet

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