Geography of Greece
Vocabulary
The Adventures of Ulysses
Greek Gods & Goddesses
Random Trivia
100

This large sea is surrounded by Europe, Asia, and Africa.

What is the Mediterranean Sea?

100

This is the term for a series of rulers from the same family.

What is a dynasty?

100

This is the name of Ulysses's wife.

What is Penelope?

100

King of the gods

Who is Zeus?

100

This country was the first to use paper money.

What is China?

200

This sea between Greece and Turkey is dotted with many islands.

What is the Aegean Sea?

200

This word means treating guests well, offering them food and drink, and making them comfortable. We see several examples in The Adventures of Ulysses.

What is hospitality?

200

Eris, the goddess of this, threw the golden apple on the table at the wedding feast, causing the argument that started the Trojan War.

What is "Discord?"

200

Goddess of Wisdom

Who is Athena?

200

This was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Who was Amelia Earhart?

300

Mainland Greece forms this type of landform - a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.

What is a peninsula?

300

This ancient Chinese philosophy is based on strict laws and harsh punishments.

What is legalism?

300

On Calypso's island, Ulysses sends a man who has been turned into this type of bird to fly to Ithaca and report back to him what is happening there.

What is a sea crow?

300

God of War

Who is Ares?

300

Pickles start out as this vegetable.

What is a cucumber?

400

This sea lies just west of Greece.

What is the Ionian Sea?

400

This word means god-like, heavenly.

What is divine?

400

In the movie version,  Athena tells Telemachus to sail here to find out more about whether his father is alive or not.

What is Sparta?

400

This god drives his sun chariot across the sky each day.

Who is Hyperion or Helios?

400

This famous inventor and artist painted the Mona Lisa.

Who was Leonardo DaVinci?

500

This is the name of the large island that lies just south of mainland Greece.

What is Crete?

500

This word describes a group of people who leave their homeland to settle in a new place. They usually maintain close ties with their homeland.

What is a colony?

500

This is the name of the man who falls from the mast before Ulysses and his men sail into the Underworld.

What is Elpenor?

500

This goddess wins the golden apple by promising Paris the most beautiful woman on earth.

Who is Aphrodite?

500

Name all five Great Lakes.

Lake Eerie, Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, and Lake Ontario