O-Rex JeopardyAncient Greek Life & Theatre

Tragedy & the Tragic Hero

Oedipus Rex Trivia

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Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Ancient Greek Life & Theater

This word is the name of the person, place, and thing the ancient Greeks would consult to predict the future or obtain a prophecy.

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What is the oracle at Delphi?

$200 Question from Ancient Greek Life & Theater

Origins of ancient Greek drama began with dances and songs performed in honor of this god.

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Who is Dyonysus?

$300 Question from Ancient Greek Life & Theater

Extending from the orchestra to each side of the theater were these two broad aisles, which the Chorus used to enter the theater. (Also the name of the entrance dance when the chorus enters the stage.)

$300 Answer from Ancient Greek Life & Theater

What are the parados?

$400 Question from Ancient Greek Life & Theater

These are the movements (usually of the Chorus) back and forth across the stage in a Greek play.

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What are strophe and antistrophe?

$500 Question from Ancient Greek Life & Theater

This is the name of the legendary first actor.

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Who is Thespis?

$100 Question from Tragedy & the Tragic Hero

This is the tragic flaw we know as excessive pride or arrogance.

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What is hubris?

$200 Question from Tragedy & the Tragic Hero

This is the Greek word for tragic flaw.

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What is hamartia?

$300 Question from Tragedy & the Tragic Hero

This character in a tragedy is NOT an average person, he possesses a tragic flaw, his downfall is partially his fault and partially fate, and he realizes something about himself.

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Who is the tragic hero?

$400 Question from Tragedy & the Tragic Hero

This man is the author of Oedipus Rex.

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Who is Sophocles?

$500 Question from Tragedy & the Tragic Hero

This is what releasing or getting rid of negative emotions is called.

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What is catharsis?

$100 Question from Oedipus Rex Trivia

This is what the Latin word Rex means.

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What is king?

$200 Question from Oedipus Rex Trivia

Throughout the play, the city of Thebes is compared to this.

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What is a ship in a storm?

$300 Question from Oedipus Rex Trivia

This is the god or goddess responsible for the prophecies given at Delphi.

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Who is Apollo?

$400 Question from Oedipus Rex Trivia

This is the collective character in the play that represents the elders of the city.

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Who is the Chorus?

$500 Question from Oedipus Rex Trivia

This is the meaning of the name Oedipus.

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What is swollen foot?

$100 Question from Name that Literary Device

"The news I bring ought to mean joy/ Though it may be you find some grief in it."

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What is paradox?

$200 Question from Name that Literary Device

“Oedipus . . . ./ You, under whose hand,/ In the storm of another time,/ Our dear land sailed out free,/ But now stand fast at the helm!”

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What is ship imagery or a ship metaphor?

$300 Question from Name that Literary Device

"the holy prophet . . . Seer: the student of mysteries"

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What is epithet?

$400 Question from Name that Literary Device

"How could I wish that I were someone else?/ How could I not be glad to know my birth?"

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What is dramatic irony?

$500 Question from Name that Literary Device

"For Heaven is their bright nurse."

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What is personification?

$100 Question from Who Said That?

This character proclaims, “Now,/O Light, may I look on you for the last time!”

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Who is Oedipus?

$200 Question from Who Said That?

This character speaks to the gods saying, "Now I remember, O Healer, your power, and wonder:/ Will you send doom like a sudden cloud, or weave it/ Like nightfall of the past?"

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Who is the Chorus?

$300 Question from Who Said That?

This character said, “You are fatally wrong! May you never learn who you are!”

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Who is Jocasta?

$400 Question from Who Said That?

This character says, "I am the kind of man/ Who holds his tongue when he has no facts to go on."

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Who is Creon?

$500 Question from Who Said That?

This character proclaims, "Let me go home. Bear your own fate, and I'll/ Bear mine. It is better so: trust what I say."

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Who is Teiresias?

Final Jeopardy

This is an example of fate vs. free will, one of the main themes in the play.

Final Jeopardy Answer

Any example of Laius, Jocasta, or Oedipus trying to avoid their prophecies when they actually help them come true.