Characters
gods/goddesses
There's Troubles!
But it's home!
FINAL QUESTION
Super Duper HARD
100
The king of Ithaca
Who is Odysseus?
100
The god of all gods and humans
Who is Zeus?
100
Eating this food causes memory loss
What is the lotus fruit?
100
Where the blind prophet lives
Where is the Land of the Dead?
100
This is the number of men that was eaten by "The Giant in the Cave"
What is six?
200
A giant whirlpool which will destroy an entire ship if it gets too close
What is Charybdis?
200
God of the sea, water, and earthquakes in Greek mythology.
Who is Poseidon?
200
This war was won by building a wooden horse.
What is the Trojan War?
200
The land of King Alcinous, Queen Arete, and their daughter Nausicaa
Where is Phaeacia?
200
The person with whom Odysseus stays with upon his return to Ithaca
Who is Eumaeus, the swineherd?
300
The blind prophet
Who is Tiresias?
300
The giant killer and messenger of the gods.
Who is Hermes?
300
The men opened this while our hero was fast asleep and blew them further away from home.
What was the bag of wind?
300
The entrance is able to be blocked by rolling a large boulder in front.
Where is Polyphemus's cave?
Acceptable - the cyclops cave
300
The phrase in Latin for "into the middle of things." It describes a story that begins, not at the beginning, but somewhere in the middle.
What is "in medias res?"
400
The daughter of the Phaeacian King
Who is Nausicaa?
400
The goddess of wisdom and warfare.
Who is Athena?
400
Penelope had to hold off the suitors. Describe the trick that helped her to do so.
What is Penelope tells the suitors when she finishes weaving the burial shroud she will pick a husband. HOWEVER - she weaves during the day and unweaves at night to buy herself some more time.
400
Our hero spends 7 years in Ogygia. This is the home of who?
Who is Calypso?
400
The idea that Greeks treated all strangers kindly.
What is xenia or hospitality?
500
A six-headed monster; each head will eat a man from a ship as it passes her cave.
Who is Scylla?
500
The sun god whose cattle were killed and eaten.
Who was Helios?
500
DAILY DOUBLE
They sang beautifully, so beautiful it can drive a person mad.
Who are the sirens?
500
Where the men ate the food and turned into pigs
Where is Circe's home?
500
Name of the person who Athena disguised herself as in order to help Telemachus before he sets sail to find his father.
Who was Mentor?
500
After leaving Troy to head back to home, where did our hero and his men first make their stop at?
The land of the Cicones.