Odyssey
The type of animal that Odysseus fashioned into a statue to conceal Greek soldiers.
What is a horse?
The polar bear capital of the world.
What is Churchill, Manitoba?
He was one of only 2 E-named people who entered heaven without dying. He was escorted there by chariots of fire.
Who is Elijah?
The Israelites walked through this body of water on dry ground as they were escaping Egypt.
What is the Red Sea?
Where Joseph fled with Mary and infant Jesus to escape Herod's murderous intent?
What is Egypt?
This city (in what is now modern Turkey) was besieged by the Greeks for 10 years.
What is Troy?
The world's largest naturally frozen skating rink.
What is the Rideau Canal, Ottawa, ON?
Elisha called on 2 bears to maul 42 boys because they called him this.
What is bald?
He tried to sail the whole length of the Mediterranean Sea just to get out of telling people how they could be saved.
Who is Jonah?
When Jesus was a boy, Mary and Joseph forgot him here for 3 days before coming back to get him.
What is the Temple in Jerusalem?
The face that launched a thousand ships.
Who is Helen of Troy?
One of the only four places on earth that is typically colder than Canada.
What is Greenland, Russia, Kazakhstan or Antarctica?
More than just a pretty face, this beauty pageant winner saved her fellow exiled Jews from Persian persecution.
Who is Esther?
He was shipwrecked 3 times and spent a night and a day in the open sea before reaching safety.
Who is the Apostle Paul?
Where Jesus was baptized by John.
What is the Jordan River?
Polyphemus was one of these (which made it easier for Odysseus to blind him).
What is a cyclops?
A city in this Canadian province holds the record for most snowfall in a single season.
What is British Columbia?
(1971-1972, Revelstoke, 24+m)
This prophet was told to lie on his left side for 390, then roll over and lie on his right side for 40 more days. It was no easy task.
Who is Ezekiel?
Jesus exorcised demons and drove them into a herd of these before casting them into the Sea of Galilee where they drowned.
What are pigs?
The "c"ite of Jesus' first miracle.
What is Cana?
She fended off dozens of suitors while waiting 10 years for her husband, Odysseus, to return from the Trojan war.
Who is Penelope?
This "royal" city has some of Canada's coldest and warmest recorded temperatures.
What is Regina, Saskatchewan?
This Jewish Judge assassinated evil king Eglon by stabbing him in his corpulent belly until even the hilt of his sword was swallowed up by Eglon's waistband.
Who is Ehud?
After washing ashore on the island of Malta on his ill-fated voyage to Rome, the Apostle Paul was considered a god by the locals for surviving this.
The name of the place where Jesus died.