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