This board helps players review The Odyssey through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Epic Terms, Sailing From Troy, Storms & Lotus, The Cyclops, Heroes & Values. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.
- Classroom review
- Test prep
- Team trivia
- Group play
- Family game night
A peek at what's on the board — 5 categories and one sample clue from each. Answers stay hidden until you open them, so the game still works.
A long poem about a hero’s great deeds.
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epic
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The people Odysseus raids at Ismarus.
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Cicones
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The king of the gods who sends the storm.
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Zeus
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The Cyclops’ name who traps Odysseus.
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Polyphemus
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Odysseus’ home island.
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Ithaca
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Board content
Epic Terms
- $100 — A long poem about a hero’s great deeds.
- epic
- $200 — The poem opens with a call to the Muse.
- invocation
- $300 — “Dawn with ringlets shining” is this descriptive device.
- epithet
- $400 — Odysseus narrates past events to King Alcinous using this technique.
- flashback
- $500 — Latin phrase meaning “in the middle of things.”
- in medias res
Sailing From Troy
- $100 — The people Odysseus raids at Ismarus.
- Cicones
- $200 — What Odysseus orders his men to do after the raid.
- leave quickly
- $300 — Instead, the mutinous crew do this on the beach.
- feast and drink wine
- $400 — Men lost from each ship at Ismarus.
- six
- $500 — The Cicones’ army is compared to these.
- leaves and blades of spring
Storms & Lotus
- $100 — The king of the gods who sends the storm.
- Zeus
- $200 — The cape whose winds and current drive Odysseus off course.
- Malea
- $300 — Days drifting before reaching the Lotus-Eaters.
- nine
- $400 — What Odysseus does to the Lotus-eaters once aboard.
- tie them under benches
- $500 — The Lotus symbolizes this.
- temptation
The Cyclops
- $100 — The Cyclops’ name who traps Odysseus.
- Polyphemus
- $200 — The false name Odysseus gives the giant.
- Nohbdy
- $300 — The drink used to make the Cyclops drowsy.
- strong wine
- $400 — The animals the men cling beneath to escape.
- rams
- $500 — The god Polyphemus prays to for vengeance.
- Poseidon
Heroes & Values
- $100 — Odysseus’ home island.
- Ithaca
- $200 — The goddess who held Odysseus on her island.
- Calypso
- $300 — The sacred Greek rule of hospitality the Cyclops breaks.
- xenia
- $400 — The dangerous pride shown when Odysseus shouts his name.
- hubris
- $500 — The crew’s fatal flaw named early in the poem.
- recklessness
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