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O-Rex Jeopardy Ancient Greek Life & Theatre Tragedy & the Tragic Hero Oedipus Rex Trivia Name that Literary Device Who Said That? Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Ancient Greek Life & Theater This word is the name of the person, place, and thing the ancient Greeks would consult to predict the future or obtain a prophecy.

$100 Answer from Ancient Greek Life & Theater What is the oracle at Delphi?

$200 Question from Ancient Greek Life & Theater Origins of ancient Greek drama began with dances and songs performed in honor of this god.

$200 Answer from Ancient Greek Life & Theater Who is Dyonysus?

$300 Question from Ancient Greek Life & Theater Extending from the orchestra to each side of the theater were these two broad aisles, which the Chorus used to enter the theater. (Also the name of the entrance dance when the chorus enters the stage.)

$300 Answer from Ancient Greek Life & Theater What are the parados?

$400 Question from Ancient Greek Life & Theater These are the movements (usually of the Chorus) back and forth across the stage in a Greek play.

$400 Answer from Ancient Greek Life & Theater What are strophe and antistrophe?

$500 Question from Ancient Greek Life & Theater This is the name of the legendary first actor.

$500 Answer from Ancient Greek Life & Theater Who is Thespis?

$100 Question from Tragedy & the Tragic Hero This is the tragic flaw we know as excessive pride or arrogance.

$100 Answer from Tragedy & the Tragic Hero What is hubris?

$200 Question from Tragedy & the Tragic Hero This is the Greek word for tragic flaw.

$200 Answer from Tragedy & the Tragic Hero What is hamartia?

$300 Question from Tragedy & the Tragic Hero This character in a tragedy is NOT an average person, he possesses a tragic flaw, his downfall is partially his fault and partially fate, and he realizes something about himself.

$300 Answer from Tragedy & the Tragic Hero Who is the tragic hero?

$400 Question from Tragedy & the Tragic Hero This man is the author of Oedipus Rex.

$400 Answer from Tragedy & the Tragic Hero Who is Sophocles?

$500 Question from Tragedy & the Tragic Hero This is what releasing or getting rid of negative emotions is called.

$500 Answer from Tragedy & the Tragic Hero What is catharsis?

$100 Question from Oedipus Rex Trivia This is what the Latin word Rex means.

$100 Answer from Oedipus Rex Trivia What is king?

$200 Question from Oedipus Rex Trivia Throughout the play, the city of Thebes is compared to this.

$200 Answer from Oedipus Rex Trivia What is a ship in a storm?

$300 Question from Oedipus Rex Trivia This is the god or goddess responsible for the prophecies given at Delphi.

$300 Answer from Oedipus Rex Trivia Who is Apollo?

$400 Question from Oedipus Rex Trivia This is the collective character in the play that represents the elders of the city.

$400 Answer from Oedipus Rex Trivia Who is the Chorus?

$500 Question from Oedipus Rex Trivia This is the meaning of the name Oedipus.

$500 Answer from Oedipus Rex Trivia What is swollen foot?

$100 Question from Name that Literary Device "The news I bring ought to mean joy/ Though it may be you find some grief in it."

$100 Answer from Name that Literary Device What is paradox?

$200 Question from Name that Literary Device “Oedipus..../ You, under whose hand,/ In the storm of another time,/ Our dear land sailed out free,/ But now stand fast at the helm!”

$200 Answer from Name that Literary Device What is ship imagery or a ship metaphor?

$300 Question from Name that Literary Device "the holy prophet... Seer: the student of mysteries"

$300 Answer from Name that Literary Device What is epithet?

$400 Question from Name that Literary Device "How could I wish that I were someone else?/ How could I not be glad to know my birth?"

$400 Answer from Name that Literary Device What is dramatic irony?

$500 Question from Name that Literary Device "For Heaven is their bright nurse."

$500 Answer from Name that Literary Device What is personification?

$100 Question from Who Said That? This character proclaims, “Now,/O Light, may I look on you for the last time!”

$100 Answer from Who Said That? Who is Oedipus?

$200 Question from Who Said That? This character speaks to the gods saying, "Now I remember, O Healer, your power, and wonder:/ Will you send doom like a sudden cloud, or weave it/ Like nightfall of the past?"

$200 Answer from Who Said That? Who is the Chorus?

$300 Question from Who Said That? This character said, “You are fatally wrong! May you never learn who you are!”

$300 Answer from Who Said That? Who is Jocasta?

$400 Question from Who Said That? This character says, "I am the kind of man/ Who holds his tongue when he has no facts to go on."

$400 Answer from Who Said That? Who is Creon?

$500 Question from Who Said That? This character proclaims, "Let me go home. Bear your own fate, and I'll/ Bear mine. It is better so: trust what I say."

$500 Answer from Who Said That? Who is Teiresias?

Final Jeopardy This is an example of fate vs. free will, one of the main themes in the play.

Final Jeopardy Answer Any example of Laius, Jocasta, or Oedipus trying to avoid their prophecies when they actually help them come true.