The Odyssey

Question 1

Homer

Answer 1

Author of the Odyssey

Question 2

Odysseus

Answer 2

Main character

Question 3

Penelope

Answer 3

Wife of Odysseus

Question 4

Telemachus

Answer 4

Son of Penelope and Odysseus

Question 5

Laertes

Answer 5

Father of Odysseus

Question 6

Anticlea

Answer 6

Mother of Odysseus

Question 7

Elpenor

Answer 7

Greek

Question 8

Eurylochus

Answer 8

Greek

Question 9

Perimedes

Answer 9

Greek

Question 10

Tiresias

Answer 10

Blind prophet, in the Land of the Dead

Question 11

Achilles

Answer 11

Greek

Question 12

Hector

Answer 12

Trojan

Question 13

King Priam

Answer 13

Trojan

Question 14

Paris

Answer 14

Trojan

Question 15

Helen

Answer 15

Greek Queen

Question 16

Menelaus

Answer 16

Greek

Question 17

Agamemnon

Answer 17

Greek

Question 18

Alcinous

Answer 18

King of the Phaecians, offers Odysseus hospitality and a safe passage to Ithaca

Question 19

Cicones

Answer 19

A Homeric Thracian tribe, joined the Trojans

Question 20

Sirens

Answer 20

Use their beautiful voices to luer sailors to their deaths

Question 21

Polyphemus

Answer 21

Son of Poseidon, a Cyclops

Question 22

Scylla

Answer 22

Appears as a rock, then has six heads and attacks ships

Question 23

Charybdis

Answer 23

A whirlpool that sucks things under water then spits them out

Question 24

Circe

Answer 24

An enchantress, who helps Odysseus

Question 25

Calypso

Answer 25

A nymph who kept Odysseus for years

Question 26

Laestrygonians

Answer 26

A group of cannibals

Question 27

Lotus Eaters

Answer 27

People who give a flower(lotus) and it makes you forget everything and makes you want nothing else than to eat lotus flowers(like a drug)

Question 28

Zeus

Answer 28

Helps and goes against Odysseus, king of all gods, god of the skys

Question 29

Poseiden

Answer 29

Helps and goes against Odysseus, god of the sea

Question 30

Helios

Answer 30

Against Odysseus, god of the sun

Question 31

Athena

Answer 31

Helped Odysseus, god of wisdom and war

Question 32

Hermes

Answer 32

Helped Odysseus, messenger of the gods

Question 33

Aeolus

Answer 33

Helped Odysseus, god of wind

Question 34

Hades

Answer 34

God of the dead, ruler of the Underworld

Question 35

lampetia

Answer 35

Daughter of Helios, was sent to guard her father's cattle

Question 36

Ithaca

Answer 36

Home of Odysseus

Question 37

Troy

Answer 37

Home of the Trojans

Question 38

Aeolia

Answer 38

Home of Aeolus

Question 39

Ismarus

Answer 39

Home of the Cicones

Question 40

Aeaea

Answer 40

Home of Circe

Question 41

Ogygia

Answer 41

Home of Calypso

Question 42

Phaeacia

Answer 42

Home of Alcinuous

Question 43

Land of the Dead

Answer 43

Home of Hades

Question 44

Antinous

Answer 44

Leader of the suitors

Question 45

Eumaeus

Answer 45

Odysseus' old sheep herder