1. Jeopardy
The Odyssey
by Homer

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Jeopardy!

3. Monsters! for $100
Odysseus must use intelligence to escape this incredibly large monster, or he will become an appetizer.
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4. Monsters! for $200
Only a visit to the land of these will you receive a flower that will make you not wish to return home.
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5. Go this route, and this monster will kill six of your men!
Monsters! for $300
Go this route, and this monster will kill six of your men!
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6. Monsters! for $400
Go this route, and the threat of Odysseus losing all of his men is present.
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7. Monsters! for $500
These creatures, part woman and part bird, use songs to lure sailors to their death.
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8. The name of Odysseus’ wife
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The name of Odysseus’ wife
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9. Who am I? for $200
The king of the Phaeacians; Odysseus tells him stories of his adventures from Book 9 through Book 12.
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10. The name of Odysseus’s son
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The name of Odysseus’s son
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11. Who am I? for $400
The father of Odysseus
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12. Who am I? for $500
The names of the two suitors Odysseus must defeat at the end of the epic.
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13. Gods and Goddesses for $100
The name of the blind prophet Odysseus must visit in the underworld
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14. Gods and Goddesses for $200
Odysseus stays with this Goddess for a year after she turns his men into swine
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The God of the sea and earthquakes; also the father of Polyphemus
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When Odysseus accomplishes the final task of shooting the bow, this God sends down a thunderbolt letting everyone know the great Odysseus has returned to his castle.
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17. Gods and Goddesses for $500
The guardian of the winds; gives Odysseus a bag of favorable winds and a bag unfavorable winds which causes problems for Odysseus’s return trip home.
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18. Gotta Love the Epic for $100
The epic begins long before Odysseus returns from battle during this war.
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Odysseus’s greatest weapon
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After his return home, Odysseus must complete this final task proving he is the King
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Odysseus’ main goal is to return home to this place.
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Odysseus receives the most help from this Goddess during his fight with the suitors.
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Considered Odysseus’ greatest weakness, we see it when he yells his name back to the Cyclops.
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Since Odysseus wants no one to know that he has come back home, he disguises himself as this.
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25. How Penelope keeps from being re-married for at least three years.
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How Penelope keeps from being re-married for at least three years.
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At the beginning of the epic, Homer prays to this Goddess for help in telling the story of Odysseus.
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27. It took Odysseus this many years to return home from the war.
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It took Odysseus this many years to return home from the war.
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28. Final Jeopardy

29. Final Jeopardy
The name of the first part of the epic poem, where Homer asks for inspiration to tell his story

30. Shoot Arrow through 12 Axe Heads Antinous and Eurymachus
Answer Key
Monsters!
Who am I?
Gods and Goddesses
Gotta Love the Epic
Extra! Extra!
The Cyclops
Penelope
Tiresias
Trojan War
Ego
Lotus Eaters
Alcinous
Circe
Bow and Arrow
Beggar
Scylla
Telemachus
Poseidon
Shoot Arrow through 12 Axe Heads
Unravels her weaving
Charybdis
Laertes
Zeus
Ithaca
Muse
Sirens
Antinous and Eurymachus
Hermes
Athena
Ten