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Practice
The author of The Odyssey.
Practice Answer
Homer
Odysseus Odysseus’Challenges
Important Places
Important People The Gods
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400 400 400 400 400
500 500 500 500 500
Final Jeopardy
Question 1 - 100
Odysseus’ home
Answer 1 – 100
Ithaca
Question 1 - 200
The number of years that Odysseus is held hostage by
Calypso.
Answer 1 – 200
Seven
Question 1 - 300
Odysseus is referred to as “the man of twists and turns,”
which is an example of this.
Answer 1 – 300
An epithet
Question 1 - 400
This blind seer informs Odysseus how to get home.
Answer 1 – 400
Tiresias
Question 1 - 500
Once he arrives home, Odysseus kills this suitor first.
Answer 1 – 500
Antinous
Question 2 – 100
Circe transforms Odysseus’ men into what kind of animal.
Answer 2 – 100
Pigs
Question 2 - 200
Odysseus tells his men to stuff earwax into their ears in order
to escape this type of creature’s song.
Answer 2 – 200
Siren
Question 2 - 300
This happens to Odysseus’ men after they eat the lotus flower.
Answer 2 – 300
They lose their memory and forget that they want to go
home.
Question 2 - 400
The very first group of people Odysseus and his men
encounter on their journey home. This group kills so many
of Odysseus’ men, they are forced to flee.
Answer 2 – 400
Cicones
Question 2 - 500
Scylla takes and kills this many of Odysseus’ men.
Answer 2 – 500
Six
Question 3 - 100
The island where Calypso lives
Answer 3 – 100
Ogygia
Question 3 - 200
The original place Odysseus traveled to (basically, the
reason why he is trying to get home).
Answer 3 – 200
Troy
Question 3 - 300
Odysseus and his men land on this island, which they find out
is inhabited by cannibals.
Answer 3 – 300
Laestrygonia
Question 3 - 400
Odysseus and his men return to this place to provide proper
burial rites for Elpenor.
Answer 3 – 400
Aeaea
Question 3 - 500
Alcinous and Arete are the king and queen of this country.
Answer 3 – 500
Phaeacia
Question 4 - 100
Wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus.
Answer 4 – 100
Penelope
Question 4 - 200
This person recognizes Odysseus because of a scar on
his leg.
Answer 4 – 200
Eurycleia
Question 4 - 300
This princess discovers Odysseus and brings him to
her father, Alcinous.
Answer 4 – 300
Nausicaa
Question 4 - 400
This person gives Odysseus a bag of winds before he leaves his island. Also known as the
“Keeper of the Winds.”
Answer 4 – 400
Aeolus
Question 4 - 500
When Odysseus finally arrives home, he visits this person
first.
Answer 4 – 500
Eumaeus
Question 5 - 100
This god kills all of Odysseus’ men by destroying their ship
with a thunderbolt.
Answer 5 – 100
Zeus
Question 5 - 200
This god visits Telemachus disguised as Mentes, lord of
the Taphians.
Answer 5 – 200
Athena
Question 5 - 300
We find out the Cyclops, Polyphemus, is the son of this
god.
Answer 5 – 300
Poseidon
Question 5 - 400
This god’s herd of cattle lives on the island of Thrinacia.
Odysseus and his men kill the cattle after being warned not
to.
Answer 5 – 400
Helios
Question 5 - 500
This god visits Odysseus on Circe’s island and gives him moly, an herb to keep him
from being affected by Circe’s potion.
Answer 5 – 500
Hermes
Final Jeopardy
Odysseus meets and talks with several people in the
Underworld. Name four of these people.
Final Jeopardy Answer
• Tiresias• Anticleia• Elpenor• Agamemnon• Achilles• Ajax
• Epicaste, Chloris, Leda, Iphimedeia, Phaedra, Procris, Ariadne, Clymene, Maera, Eriphyle, Antilochus, Patroclus, Tantalus, Tityus, Sisyphus, Minos, Orion, Heracles