Greek Mythology Jeopardy

From Zeus to the Minotaur to words like herculean, this mythology review board is free to duplicate and plays with students buzzing in by phone.

6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone

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The Olympians

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This king of the Greek gods ruled from Mount Olympus and wielded a lightning bolt as his weapon.
Who is Zeus?
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This goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare sprang fully grown from the head of Zeus.
Who is Athena?
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This god of the sea carried a trident and could cause earthquakes as well as storms.
Who is Poseidon?
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This goddess of love and beauty was said to have been born from sea foam.
Who is Aphrodite?
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This messenger god wore winged sandals and guided souls to the underworld.
Who is Hermes?

Heroes and Quests

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This hero completed twelve seemingly impossible labors as punishment, including slaying the Nemean lion.
Who is Heracles?
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This hero sailed with a crew called the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece.
Who is Jason?
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This hero used a ball of thread given to him by a princess to escape a maze after slaying the creature inside.
Who is Theseus?
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This hero's ten-year journey home from the Trojan War included encounters with a Cyclops and a witch named Circe.
Who is Odysseus?
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This warrior was nearly invulnerable except for one spot on his heel, where he was ultimately struck and killed.
Who is Achilles?

Monsters and Creatures

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This creature has the body of a lion and the head of a woman, and asked travelers a famous riddle outside Thebes.
What is the Sphinx?
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This nine-headed serpent grew two new heads for every one that was cut off, until Heracles finally defeated it.
What is the Hydra?
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This creature, half man and half bull, lived at the center of a labyrinth on Crete.
What is the Minotaur?
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This monster's gaze turned anyone who looked at her directly to stone, and her hair was made of living snakes.
Who is Medusa?
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This many-headed dog with a serpent's tail guarded the gates of the underworld.
What is Cerberus?

The Underworld

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This god ruled the underworld and the realm of the dead, brother to Zeus and Poseidon.
Who is Hades?
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This river of the underworld had to be crossed by the dead, ferried across by a boatman named Charon.
What is the River Styx?
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This queen of the underworld was abducted by Hades and later spent part of each year on Earth, an event tied to the changing seasons.
Who is Persephone?
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This king was condemned to eternally roll a boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down each time he neared the top.
Who is Sisyphus?
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This king was punished by standing in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree, both of which receded whenever he reached for them.
Who is Tantalus?

Titans and Beginnings

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This primordial deity's name means Earth, and she was one of the first beings to emerge at the dawn of creation.
Who is Gaia?
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This Titan swallowed his own children at birth for fear one would overthrow him, as one eventually did.
Who is Cronus?
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This Titan is condemned to hold up the sky on his shoulders for eternity.
Who is Atlas?
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This ten-year war between the Olympian gods and the Titans ended with the Titans' defeat and imprisonment.
What is the Titanomachy?
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This primordial deity personifies the yawning void said to have existed before all other things.
What is Chaos?

Myths in Everyday Words

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This English word for extreme happiness comes from the paradise where heroic and virtuous souls were said to rest after death.
What is elysian?
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This English word for intense, sudden fear comes from a god whose unexpected appearance was said to startle herds and travelers.
What is panic?
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This English word for a task requiring superhuman strength or effort comes from the hero famous for his twelve labors.
What is herculean?
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This English word for a teasing torment of being near something desirable but unable to reach it comes from a king punished with unreachable food and water.
What is tantalize?
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This English word for a trusted guide or advisor comes from a character in the Odyssey whom Athena disguised herself as to counsel Telemachus.
What is a mentor?

Final Jeopardy — Titans

Zeus chained this Titan to a rock, where an eagle fed on his liver daily, as punishment for giving fire to humans.

Who is Prometheus?

How to run this board

Mythology units generate more student enthusiasm than almost anything else in the ancient world, and this board channels it. Categories cover the twelve Olympians, heroes and their quests, monsters, the underworld, the Titans, and the myths hiding inside everyday English words like tantalize and herculean.

The everyday-words category is the sleeper hit; students are startled to find mythology in their own vocabulary. If your class read specific myths this term, swap a few clues to match your reading list before you play.

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