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Jeopardy!Gods and Goddesses

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Final Jeopardy

Characters

$100 Answer: Gods and Goddesses

• This is the king of the gods.

$100 Question from Gods and Godesses

• Who is Zeus?

$200 Answer from Gods and Goddesses

• This is Odysseus’s patron goddess, the goddess of wisdom and warfare.

$200 Question from Gods and Goddesses

• Who is Athena?

$300 Answer from Gods and Goddesses

• This is the ruler of the place where Odysseus meets Tiresias.

$300 Question from Gods and Goddesses

Who is Hades?

$400 Answer from Gods and Goddesses

This is Odysseus’s enemy among the gods.

$400 Question from Gods and Goddesses

Who is Poseidon?

$500 Answer from Gods and Goddesses

This is the sun god whose cows get Odysseus’s men in trouble

$500 Question from Gods and Goddesses

Who is Helios?

$100 Answer from Characters

This sorceress holds Odysseus captive on her island for seven years.

$100 Question from Characters

Who is Circe?

$200 Answer from Characters

This is the blind prophet Odysseus encounters in the underworld.

$200 Question from Characters

Who is Tiresias?

$300 Answer from Characters

This woman’s name is synonymous with loyalty; she waits patiently for Odysseus to return home to Ithaca.

$300 Question from Characters

Who is Penelope?

$400 Answer from Characters

This is Odysseus’s PATRONYM.

$400 Question from Characters

What is “Son of Laertes?”

$500 Answer from Characters

This is the antagonist in Odysseus’s INTERNAL conflict.

$500 Question from Characters

Who is Odysseus

$100 Answer from Monsters

This is the name of Polyphemus’s father.

$100 Question from Monsters

Who is Poseidon?

$200 Answer from Monsters

This is the six-headed sea monster.

$200 Question from Monsters

What is Scylla?

$300 Answer from Monsters

This is the man-eating whirlpool

$300 Question from Monsters

What is Charybdis?

$400 Answer from Monsters

This is what Polyphemus eats when he’s not eating people.

$400 Question from Monsters

What is cheese?

$500 Answer from Monsters

This is the race of creatures that Polyphemus belongs to.

$500 Question from Monsters

What are Cyclopes?

$100 Answer from Background Info

This is the man credited with writing the Odyssey and its “prequel,” the Iliad.

$100 Question from Background Info

Who is Homer?

$200 Answer from Background Info

This is the fruit that supposedly started the Trojan War.

$200 Question from Background Info

What is a golden apple?

$300 Answer from Background Info

This supposed “peace offering” won the Trojan War for the Greeks.

$300 Question from Background Info

What is the Trojan Horse?

$400 Answer from Background Info

The author of the Odyssey reportedly suffered from this disability.

$400 Question from Background Info

What is blindness?

$500 Answer from Background Info

This is how long the Trojan War supposedly lasted.

$500 Question from Jewish Terminology

What is ten years?

$100 Answer from Literary Terms

Here’s an example of one:“as a blacksmith plunges a glowing ax or adze / in an ice-cold bath and the metal screeches steam / and its temper hardens—that’s the iron’s strength— / so the eye of the Cyclops sizzled round that stake!”

$100 Question from Literary Terms

What is an epic simile?

This is the genre that The Odyssey—and any other long narrative poem about heroic journeys—would fall into

$200 Answer from Literary Terms

$200 Question from Literary Terms

What is an epic?

$300 Answer from Literary Terms

This occurs when we, the audience, know something that the characters in the story do not—for example, when we know that Odysseus’s men will not make it home alive.

$300 Question from Literary Terms

What is dramatic irony?

$400 Answer from Literary Terms

This is vividly descriptive language that appeals to the senses, like the graphic depiction of Odysseus and his men driving the stake into Polyphemus’s eye.

$400 Question from Literary Terms

What is imagery?

$500 Answer from Literary Terms

This occurs when human characteristics are ascribed to something that is not human, like the “yawning mouth” of the Cyclops’s cave.

$500 Question from Literary Terms

What is personification?

Final Jeopardy

Final Jeopardy Question

• This Greek word, meaning excessive pride or arrogance, is Odysseus’s most conspicuous flaw.