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Tragedy
Oedipus
Plot
Sub-Characters
Riddles and Prophecies
100
What was tragic about Jocasta?
She married her son according to the prophecy.
100

Oedipus' parents who raised him.

Who are Polybus and Merope

100

What does Laius and Jocasta do to Oedipus to attempt to prevent their prophecy from coming true?

Leave Oedipus to die as a baby at Mount Cithaeron.

100
Who is the previous king of Thebes?
Who is Laius.
100

There are two fathers and two sons in a car. How many people are in the car?

What is three. A grandfather, father, and son.

200

What was so tragic about Laius's death?

He unknowingly tried to run his son off the road, who unknowingly killed his own father.

200
Who was asked to leave Oedipus in Mount Cithaeron to die?
Who is the shepherd.
200
What was happening when Oedipus reigned over Thebes?
It is raining blood, the crops have died, and the children in the wombs of women are dying.
200
Who does Oedipus marry?
Who is Jocasta.
200

An electric train is traveling from east to west, and the wind is blowing from north to south. In which direction does the smoke go?

None

300

What is the tragedy of Thebes?

They were being terrorized by the sphinx, then named a new king without finding the original king's murderer, and now a plague has been beset upon them.

300
Where does Oedipus go to find out who he was born from?
What is the Oracle of Delphi.
300
Who goes to the Oracle of Delphi to find a solution to the problem in Thebes?
Who is Creon.
300

Who goes to the Oracle of Delphi and told what needs to happen in order to end the plague that has beset Thebes.

Who is Creon?

300

It is lighter than a feather, but most can’t hold it for more than two minutes. What is it?

What is your breath?

400
What does Oedipus hope he was as a child so that he could let go of his suspicion of himself being the killer of Laius?
What is a slave.
400
What is the reason Oedipus does not return to Corinth?
Oedipus did not want to kill his father and marry his mother as according to the prophecy.
400

What does Oedipus do to himself after he finds out what he has done?

Oedipus gouges his eyes with Jocasta's brooches.

400

Which character commits suicide at the end of the story?

Who is Jocasta.

400
  1. What gets sharper the more you use it?

What is your brain?

500
What is the tragic action that Oedipus doesn't want to stop doing near the end of the play? a) Ruling over Thebes. b) Oedipus doesn't want to let go of his daughters. c) Believing he is actually a slave. d)Attempting to kill Creon.
b)Oedipus doesn't want to let go of his daughters.
500

Why does Oedipus's feet have special marks on them?

His feet were bound together so that he couldn't moved when he was a baby.

500

What does Oedipus ask Creon to let him do before he dies?

What is wander about Mount Cithaeron until he dies.

500

Who does Oedipus accuse of conspiring against him?

Who are Creon and Tiresias.

500
  1. What has a mouth but cannot eat and runs but has no legs?

What is a river?