2. Practice The author of The Odyssey.

3. Practice Answer Homer

4. Odysseus Odysseus’ Challenges Important Places Important People The Gods 100 200 300 400 500 Final Jeopardy

5. Question 1 - 100 Odysseus’ home

6. Answer 1 – 100 Ithaca

7. Question 1 - 200 The number of years that Odysseus is held hostage by Calypso.

8. Answer 1 – 200 Seven

9. Question 1 - 300 Odysseus is referred to as “the man of twists and turns,” which is an example of this.

10. Answer 1 – 300 An epithet

11. Question 1 - 400 This blind seer informs Odysseus how to get home.

12. Answer 1 – 400 Tiresias

13. Question 1 - 500 Once he arrives home, Odysseus kills this suitor first.

14. Answer 1 – 500 Antinous

15. Question 2 – 100 Circe transforms Odysseus’ men into what kind of animal.

16. Answer 2 – 100 Pigs

17. Question 2 - 200 Odysseus tells his men to stuff earwax into their ears in order to escape this type of creature’s song.

18. Answer 2 – 200 Siren

19. Question 2 - 300 This happens to Odysseus’ men after they eat the lotus flower.

20. Answer 2 – 300 They lose their memory and forget that they want to go home.

21. 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.

22. Answer 2 – 400 Cicones

23. Question 2 - 500 Scylla takes and kills this many of Odysseus’ men.

24. Answer 2 – 500 Six

25. Question 3 - 100 The island where Calypso lives

26. Answer 3 – 100 Ogygia

27. Question 3 - 200 The original place Odysseus traveled to (basically, the reason why he is trying to get home).

28. Answer 3 – 200 Troy

29. Question 3 - 300 Odysseus and his men land on this island, which they find out is inhabited by cannibals.

30. Answer 3 – 300 Laestrygonia

31. Question 3 - 400 Odysseus and his men return to this place to provide proper burial rites for Elpenor.

32. Answer 3 – 400 Aeaea

33. Question 3 - 500 Alcinous and Arete are the king and queen of this country.

34. Answer 3 – 500 Phaeacia

35. Question 4 - 100 Wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus.

36. Answer 4 – 100 Penelope

37. Question 4 - 200 This person recognizes Odysseus because of a scar on his leg.

38. Answer 4 – 200 Eurycleia

39. Question 4 - 300 This princess discovers Odysseus and brings him to her father, Alcinous.

40. Answer 4 – 300 Nausicaa

41. Question 4 - 400 This person gives Odysseus a bag of winds before he leaves his island. Also known as the “Keeper of the Winds.”

42. Answer 4 – 400 Aeolus

43. Question 4 - 500 When Odysseus finally arrives home, he visits this person first.

44. Answer 4 – 500 Eumaeus

45. Question 5 - 100 This god kills all of Odysseus’ men by destroying their ship with a thunderbolt.

46. Answer 5 – 100 Zeus

47. Question 5 - 200 This god visits Telemachus disguised as Mentes, lord of the Taphians.

48. Answer 5 – 200 Athena

49. Question 5 - 300 We find out the Cyclops, Polyphemus, is the son of this god.

50. Answer 5 – 300 Poseidon

51. 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.

52. Answer 5 – 400 Helios

53. 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.

54. Answer 5 – 500 Hermes

55. Final Jeopardy Odysseus meets and talks with several people in the Underworld. Name four of these people.

56. 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