Odysseus

Question 1

What son of Laertes…

Answer 1

Odysseus

Question 2

What daughter of Autolycus…

Answer 2

Anticleia

Question 3

Who named Odysseus?

Answer 3

Autolycus

Question 4

Choosing the name, saying
that it was in honor of the odium that so many men had borne him during his long, rascally life..

Answer 4

Autolycus (maybe Odysseus)

Question 5

Receiving a deep gash in his
thigh from a boar’s tusk while hunting with…

Answer 5

Odysseus

Question 6

Who was sent to Messene to demand the return of three hundred
sheep from Messenian raiders…

Answer 6

Odysseus

Question 7

While staying at the house of Ortilochus, who met Iphitus…

Answer 7

Odysseus

Question 8

Who gave Odysseus the great bow that had belonged to Eurytus, a famous archer?

Answer 8

Iphitus

Question 9

Who did Odysseus’s bow originally belong to?

Answer 9

Eurytus

Question 10

Who journeyed to Ephyra, in Thesprotia, to get arrow poison from Ilus, Medea’s grandson?

Answer 10

Odysseus

Question 11

Who ended up giving Odysseus arrow poison?

Answer 11

Anchialus

Question 12

What expert of poisons did Odysseus want to get arrow poison from?

Answer 12

Ilus (Medea’s grandson)

Question 13

What did Odysseus get in return for giving Tyndareus a great idea?

Answer 13

He’d help him to get Penelope as a wife

Question 14

Wearing the headgear of a madman…

Answer 14

Odysseus

Question 15

Who had a martial trumpet blown at Lycomedes’ palace and noted the difference in Achilles’ reaction from that of the girls?

Answer 15

Odysseus

Question 16

How many ships did Odysseus have?

Answer 16

12

Question 17

What two man went to Mycenae to convince Clytemnestra to send Iphigenia?

Answer 17

Odysseus and Diomedes

Question 18

What leader of the Malian forces…

Answer 18

Philoctetes

Question 19

Distinguishing himself particularly by his shrewdness and craft and by his eloquence..

Answer 19

Odysseus

Question 20

What man interceded to protect Odysseus and Diomedes from the trojans killing them?

Answer 20

Antenor

Question 21

Who persuaded the angry Greeks to give Ajax a decent funeral?

Answer 21

Odysseus

Question 22

Who with Phoenix he sailed to the island of Scyrus for Neoptolemus?

Answer 22

Odysseus

Question 23

What two men hung a panther skin on the door of Antenor’s house as a sign to the other Greeks that it was to be left unharmed?

Answer 23

Odysseus and Menelaus

Question 24

Odysseus and Diomedes hung a panther skin on the door of what man’s house as a sign to the other Greeks that it was to be left unharmed?

Answer 24

Antenor’s

Question 25

Who insisted on the murder of Hector’s little son, Astyanax, believing that no male descendant of Priam should be allowed to survive?

Answer 25

Odysseus

Question 26

Who demanded that Ajax the lesser be stoned to death?

Answer 26

Odysseus

Question 27

What son of Euanthes...

Answer 27

Maron

Question 28

Who went to Thesprotia and married Queen Callidice?

Answer 28

Odysseus

Question 29

Who led the Thesprotians against the Brygi, but was defeated because Ares fought with the enemy?

Answer 29

Odysseus

Question 30

What son of Queen Callidice and Odysseus...

Answer 30

Polypoetes

Question 31

A point made of the sting of a stingray...

Answer 31

Odysseus

Question 32

What old man's death came from the sea after he was killed by a spear...

Answer 32

Odysseus

Question 33

What second child of Odysseus and Penelope...

Answer 33

Acusilaus or Ptoliporthes

Question 34

What son did Odysseus bear to an unnamed daughter of Thoas son of Andraemon?

Answer 34

Leontophonus