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. Author of The Odyssey
   loyalty
2. Gives Odysseus a ship to get home
   Circe
3. A detailed comparison, using like or as, that is many lines in length
   Epic Simile
4. What Circe turned Odysseus's men into
   Cyclops
5. How long was the Trojan War?
   Homer
6. God of the Underworld
   Muse
7. The real name of Poseidon's son
   Polyphemus
8. Used as earplugs
   Beeswax
9. Odysseus's mom who he sees in the underworld
   Poseidon
10. Warns Odysseus about the sirens
    Calypso
11. What does Odysseus give the Cyclops?
    sheep
12. Belief that hospitality is important - especially to strangers
    Xenia
13. The Sun God
    Helios
14. How long was Odysseus away from home?
    irony
15. God of the sky/weather
    Zeus
16. Ancient Greek value
    Hospitality
17. What quality is Odysseus famous for?
    lightning strike
18. Home of the Gods
    Olympus
19. Another term for cows
    Lotus plant
20. Goddess of wisdom and war
    Athena
21. Describe the exploits or quest of an epic hero
    Epic
22. Where is Odysseus's home?
    Ithaca
23. Calypso's Home
    Epic poem
24. "So let me tell her forecast: then we die with our eyes open"
    Odysseus
25. Eats several of Odysseus's men in a cave
    suitors
26. What is the name of the whirlpool?
    Charybdis
27. The "narrow strait" Tiresias says will take them through Poseidon's wrath
    Restrain shipmates
28. The nymph Odysseus lives with at the VERY end of his journey
    Sirens
29. "If you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew"
    Tiresias
30. The Trojan War was fought here
    Troy
31. How is Odysseus's ship destroyed?
    Storm
32. God of the sea/earthquakes
    oral tradition
33. Sea monster who eats Odysseus's men
    Scylla
34. Convinced the men to eat the cattle
    cattle
35. Fell off Circe's roof and died
    Nohbdy
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. Messenger to the Gods
    Trojan War
39. Odysseus's fatal flaw
    Hubris
40. Another name for Helios
    Penelope
41. The "native bloom" that makes people forgetful of their homeland
    eye
42. People who ambushed Odysseus's men on Ismarus
    Cicones
43. The gift Aeolus gives to Odysseus
    Bag of Wind
44. Mother of the Cyclops
    Athena