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100 Points Lord of high noon. Answer: Who is Helios. 200 Points Question: The monster of the gray rock. Answer: Who is Scylla?. 300 Points Question: Raider of Cities. Answer: Who is Odysseus?. 400 Points Question: . Prince of Thebes. Answer: Who is Tiresias?. 500 Points
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100 Points • Lord of high noon Answer: Who is Helios
200 Points • Question: The monster of the gray rock Answer: Who is Scylla?
300 Points • Question: Raider of Cities Answer: Who is Odysseus?
400 Points Question: Prince of Thebes Answer: Who is Tiresias?
500 Points Question: Dire gorge of the salt sea Answer: Who is Charybdis?
100 Points Question: This writer may have been a blind poet & rhapsode born in the 8th century, or possibly a group of poets over hundreds of years—no one is certain. Answer: Who is Homer?
200 Points • Question:Thisperson was given the task of choosing “The Fairest” goddess at the wedding that started the Trojan War. Answer: Who is Paris?
300 Points • Question: “The Wanderings” of The Odyssey are told from this point of view. Answer: What is First Person?
400 Points • Question:This is the strategy of starting a work in the middle of the story. Answer: What is in medias res?
500 Points • Question: After the Trojan War, Odysseus and his men set sail for home; at their first stop, these people are responsible for killing a large number of Odysseus’ men. Answer: Who are the Cicones?
100 Points • Question: Mistress of the isle Answer: Who is Calypso?
200 Points Question: Queen of the Underworld Answer: Who is Persephone?
300 Points • Question: The nurse and loyal servant to Odysseus’ family Answer: Who is Eurycleia?
400 Points Question: This goddess was NOT invited to the wedding that eventually led to the Trojan War. Answer: Who is Eris?
500 Points • Question: The Odyssey opens with an invocation to this muse of epic poetry. Answer: Who is Calliope?
100 Points • Question:Hermes travels to Calypso’s island to do this. Answer: What is order Odysseus’ release (on Zeus’ command)?
200 Points • Question: Odysseus’ men untie the bag of winds from Aeolus because of this. Answer: What is they think it contains treasure?
300 Points • Question: Odysseus does not want his men eating the lotus plants because of this. Answer: What is they cause people to lose their desire to return home?
400 Points • Question: Circe turns Odysseus’ men into these. Answer: What are pigs?
500 Points • Question: Odysseus chooses to blind Polyphemus rather than kill him because of this. Answer: What is Polyphemus is the only one who can move the boulder blocking the cave’s entrance?
100 Points • Question: “Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending.” Answer: What is an invocation?
200 Points • Question:When Odysseus tells Polyphemus his name is “Nohbdy” Answer: What is verbal irony?
300 Points • Question: “extinguishing fire with fierce fire” Answer: What is a paradox?
400 Points • Question: “The man skilled in all ways of contending” Answer: What is an epithet?
500 Points • Question: “A man in a distant field, no hearth fires near • Will hide a fresh brand in his bed of embers • to keep a spark alive for the next day; • so in the leaves Odysseus hid himself.” Answer: What is a Homeric/Epic Simile?
100 Points • Question: The loyal servant who helps Odysseus defeat the suitors Answer: Who is Eumaeus?
200 Points • Question:Phaeacian king who hosts the banquet at which Odysseus tells of his adventures Answer: Who is Alcinous?
300 Points Question: Blind Prophet who offers advice to Odysseus. Answer: Who is Tiresias?
400 Points • Question:The lead suitor who is the first one killed by Odysseus. Answer: Who is Antinous?
500 Points • Question: The suitor who offers Odysseus a bribe to save his life. Answer: Who is Eurymachus?