Show:
Gods and Goddesses
Monsters, etc.
Humans
Plot
Miscellaneous
100
The number of Muses there are.
What is 9?
100
The way that Odysseus induces the Cyclops to sleep
What is gives him wine?
100
Odysseus' trait he demonstrates by lying about his name to Polyphemus
What is creativity/guile?
100
The event that happens before Odysseus' epic journey
What is the Trojan War?
100
Number of years Odysseus is away from Ithaca
What is 20 years?
200
Polyphemus' father
Who is Poseidon?
200
How Odysseus and the men escape the Cyclops
What is tying themselves to the undersides of sheep?
200
Penelope does this when Odysseus reveals who he is to her
What is distrusts him and tests him?
200
Argos does this after seeing Odysseus for the first time in 20 years.
What is wags his tail and dies?
200
Odysseus' character flaw that gets him into trouble with Poseidon
What is arrogance?
300
The sorceress-goddess who helps Odysseus get past the Sirens
Who is Circe?
300
The bird women known for their ability to lure sailors to their destruction
Who are Sirens?
300
The character other than Odysseus who illustrates the ideals of courage and patience
Who is Penelope?
300
While waiting for Tiresias, Odysseus saw ghosts of his dead crew member and also this person
Who is Odysseus' mother, Anticlea?
300
The goddesses that the narrator asks for help from at the beginning of The Odyssey; there are 9 of them
Who are the Muses?
400
The goddess who first tells Odysseus what is happening in his home in Ithaca
Who is Athena?
400
The monster that is punished for breaking the codes of hospitality
Who is Polyphemus, the Cyclops?
400
The character who persuades Odysseus to tell his story at the beginning of the epic poem
Who is Alcinous, King of the Phaeacians?
400
Penelope tricks Odysseus into revealing how he made this
What is bed?
400
The characters forced to clean up the dead bodies of the suitors, then hung by Telemachus
Who are the maids?
500
The reason that the goddess Athena puts Odysseus into a beggar disguise upon his return to Ithaca
What is to find out who is still faithful to Odysseus? To catch the suitors by surprise?
500
The monster that kills all of Odysseus' men in the film version that we viewed in class
What is Charybdis?
500
Daily Double: Figurative language comparing an extraordinary event to an everyday event
What is a Homeric/heroic simile?
500
Odysseus kills this suitor first
Who is Antinous?
500
Mysterious blind author of The Odyssey and The Iliad
Who is Homer?