Welcome!The Topic For Today Is… The Odyssey

Part One

Your TopicPlaces Mortals and

More Mythical Meetings

Immortals Say What Eventful Events

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Bonus Question: 5000 pts

Topic 1: 200• Question:• Ogygia is the home of this immortal.• Answer• Who is Calypso?

Topic 1: 400• Question:• Helios’ island is named this.• Answer• What is Thrinacia?

Topic 1: 600• Question:• This is the name of the Cicones’ city.• Answer• Ismaraus

Topic 1: 800• Question:• The Acheans are from this country.• Answer• Greece

Topic 1: 1000• Question:• This is the place Odysseus floats to after

avoiding Charybdis for the second time.• Answer• What is Calypso’s island (Ogygia).

Topic 2: 200• Question:• This person is from Ithaca, and he is the main

character of The Odyssey.• Answer• Who is Odysseus?

Topic 2: 400• Question:• This character is the father of Odysseus.• Answer• Who is Laertes?

Topic 2: 600• Question:• This is the blind prophet ghost in the Land of

the Dead who forewarned Odysseus of the dangers ahead.

• Answer• Who is Tiresias?

Topic 2: 800• Question:• This is the wife of Odysseus.• Answer• Who is Penelope?

Topic 2: 1000• Question:• In the land of Phaecia, this king rules.• Answer• Who is King Alcinous.

Topic 3: 200• Question:• I am the father of Circe.• Answer• Who is Helios?

Topic 3: 400• Question:• I am Aeolus God of this.• Answer• What is wind?

Topic 3: 600• Question:• I am the patron goddess of our hero,

Odysseus.• Answer• Who is Athena.

Topic 3: 800• Question:• This goddes holds Odysseus on her island for

one year, turning his men into swine and giving advice about the dangers ahead, and this goddess offers him immortality. Give the names of the two goddesses.

• Answer• Who is Circe? Who is Calypso?

Topic 3: 1000• Question:• This nymph says to Helios, “They have killed

your kine.”• Answer• Who is Lampetia?

Topic 4: 200• Question:• I say, “Nohbdy’s tricked me, Nohbdy’s ruined

me!” Give this character’s exact name.• Answer• Who is Polyphemus?

Topic 4: 400• Question:• I say, “Peace, Helios: Shine on among the

gods, shine over mortals in the fields of grain.”• Answer• Who is Zeus?

Topic 4: 600• Question:• “Achea’s glory…moor and be merry,” is said

by these sea perils?• Answer• Who are the sirens?

Topic 4: 800• Question:• “Better open your lungs to a big sea once for

all than waste to skin and bones on a lonely island,” is said by this character.

• Answer• Who Eurylochus?

Topic 4: 1000• Question:• “…and pay in full-or I go down forever to light

the dead men in the underworld,” says this character.

• Answer• Who is Helios?

Topic 5: 200• Question:• Before eating the cattle, Odysseus men say

they will do this as an offering to the gods when they return to Ithaca.

• Answer• What is build a costly temple?

Topic 5: 400• Question:• This plant saves Odyssues from Charibdis the

second time.• Answer• What is a fig tree?

Topic 5: 600• Question:• When Odysseus could tell his men about

Schylla or keep it a secret. This is known as what because no good can come out of it.

• Answer• What is dilemma?

Topic 5: 800• Question:• Why doesn’t Odysseus kill the cyclops when

he gets the chance?• Answer• What is they would not be able to move the

stine door.

Topic 5: 1000• Question:• The eating of the cattle of Helios could be

agrued as this vs. this. • Answer• What is fate vs. free will?

Bonus Question: 5000 pts.

• Question:• In the episode, The Cattle of the Sun God, the

men disobey Odysseus when he is doing this.• Answer• …• When he is sleeping.

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• The left side of the ship is called this?• What is port?

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Daily Double

• These extended comparisons create vivid connections for the listener.

• What are epic similes?