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