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Jeopardy

Jeopardy. Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy. People/ Places . Symbols. Theme. Irony . Other. 10 Point. 10 Point. 10 Point. 10 Point.

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Jeopardy

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  1. Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. People/ Places Symbols Theme Irony Other 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. Oedipus’ place of birth?

  5. What is Thebes?

  6. Oedipus’ adoptive father.

  7. Who is King Polybus?

  8. Speaker of the following: “He came seeing, blind shall he go; / Rich now, then a beggar; stick in hand, groping his way to a land of exile.”

  9. Who is Teiresias?

  10. The place where Oedipus’ father was murdered.

  11. What is the “crossroads” in a land called Phocis?

  12. This kindly man saved Oedipus from certain death?

  13. Who is the Shepherd?

  14. Symbolic significance of Oedipus’ swollen foot.

  15. What is the way in which fate has marked him and the way his movements have been constrained since birth?

  16. The encounter with Tieresias reveals this.

  17. What is Oedipus’ blindness to the truth in the beginning, as well as Oedipus’ temper

  18. Symbolic significance of 3 way crossroads.

  19. What is the crucial moment when Oedipus starts to fulfill prophecy; also, the paths we take and crucial decisions we make in life.

  20. Symbolic significance of the sphynx.

  21. What is Oedipus’ intelligence?

  22. Symbolic significance of Oedipus’ exile.

  23. What is destruction, failure, and a new beginning?

  24. Imagery in: “Have you eyes/ and do not seeyour own damnation?”

  25. What is blindness vs. sight?

  26. The imagery used in regards to the gods and the prophecies reveal this theme.

  27. What is the evil nature of the gods?

  28. Oedipus seeks this out and is devastated as a result of it.

  29. What is “knowing thyself”?

  30. This was aGreek proverb that Oedipus is guilty of not adhering to.

  31. What is “nothing in excess”?

  32. When Oedipus says, “Not by his hand; I did it,” reveals this theme.

  33. What is fate vs. free will?

  34. “He came seeing, blind shall he go; / Rich now, then a beggar; stick in hand, groping his way to a land of exile” refers to this person.

  35. Who is Oedipus?

  36. “I mean to fight for him now, as I would fight / For my own father” reveals this type of irony.

  37. What is dramatic irony?

  38. “You are pleased to mock my blindness. / Have you eyes, and do not see your own damnation?" reveals this type of irony.

  39. What is situational and dramatic irony?

  40. “Living in perpetual night, YOU cannot harm me, nor any man else that sees the light” is said to this person.

  41. Who is Teiresias?

  42. “with eyes wide open for profit, but blind in prophecy?” reveals this type of irony.

  43. What is dramatic irony?

  44. Symbolic significance of Oedipus blinding himself.

  45. What is Oedipus’ physical blindness, but metaphoric sight (paradox)?

  46. This “character” comments on the action, is the voice of reason, and recommends moderation in man.

  47. What is the chorus?

  48. When Oedipus implies that he will answer the citizens’ prayers, he shows this.

  49. What is hubris?

  50. “Alas! All out! All known, no more concealment! / O light! May I never look on you again, / Revealed as I am, sinful in my begetting, / Sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood!” reveals this.

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