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