The Odyssey Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. Odysseus's fatal flaw
   Hubris
2. Odysseus's mom who he sees in the underworld
   Anticlea
3. Author of The Odyssey
   Homer
4. How long was Odysseus away from home?
   20 years
5. Eats several of Odysseus's men in a cave
   Cyclops
6. Gives Odysseus a ship to get home
   Alcinous
7. God of the sky/weather
   Zeus
8. Sea monster who eats Odysseus's men
   Scylla
9. The Sun God
   Helios
10. Another name for Helios
    Lord of Noon
11. Ancient Greek value
    Honor the Gods
12. Goddess of wisdom and war
    Athena
13. Used as earplugs
    Beeswax
14. Describe the exploits or quest of an epic hero
    Epic
15. What is the name of the whirlpool?
    Charybdis
16. Warns Odysseus about the sirens
    Circe
17. What quality is Odysseus famous for?
    Guile
18. Messenger to the Gods
    Hermes
19. Calypso's Home
    Ogygia Isle
20. The real name of Poseidon's son
    Polyphemus
21. A detailed comparison, using like or as, that is many lines in length
    Epic Simile
22. The "native bloom" that makes people forgetful of their homeland
    Lotus
23. Home of the Gods
    Olympus
24. Where is Odysseus's home?
    Ithaca
25. What does Odysseus give the Cyclops?
    Brandy
26. Mother of the Cyclops
    Thoosa
27. God of the sea/earthquakes
    Poseidon
28. The Trojan War was fought here
    Troy
29. The nymph Odysseus lives with at the VERY end of his journey
    Calypso
30. The animal that helped Odysseus escape the Cyclop's cave
    Ram
31. The gift Aeolus gives to Odysseus
    Bag of Wind
32. People who ambushed Odysseus's men on Ismarus
    Cicones
33. "Sweet coupled airs we sing. No lonely seafarer holds clear of entering our green mirror"
    Sirens
34. "So let me tell her forecast: then we die with our eyes open"
    Odysseus
35. What Circe turned Odysseus's men into
    Swine
36. Another term for cows
    Kine
37. The "narrow strait" Tiresias says will take them through Poseidon's wrath
    Denial of yourself and restraint of shipmates
38. How long was the Trojan War?
    10 years
39. How is Odysseus's ship destroyed?
    Lightning bolt from Zeus
40. "If you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew"
    Tiresias
41. Belief that hospitality is important - especially to strangers
    Xenia
42. God of the Underworld
    Hades
43. Convinced the men to eat the cattle
    Eurylochus
44. Fell off Circe's roof and died
    Elpenor