The Island Quizzes

The Island Quiz 1

1 Who is the famous playwright behind the play?
Martin McDonagh

Samuel Beckett

Bertolt Brecht

Athol Fugard
2 Who helped him write the play?
John Kani and Winston Ntshona

Bertolt Brecht

Heidi Schreck

Samuel Beckett
3 Where does the play take place?
England

America

Ghana

South Africa
4 What prison is the prison in the play based on?
Pollsmoor Prison

Robben Island

Pretoria Central Prison

Rikers Island
5 When was the play first performed?
1973

1969

1987

1975
6 Where was it first performed?
New York

Cape Town

Vereeniging

Johannesburg
7 Who starred in the play on Broadway?
Charlize Theron

Winston Ntshona & John Kani

Danny Glover and Mel Gibson

Trevor Noah
8 When was Athol Fugard born?
1956

1920

1940

1932
9 Who won a Tony when the play was on Broadway?
Bertolt Brecht

Athol Fugard

Cameron McIntosh

Winston Ntshona and John Kani
10 How does the play start?
With the sound of sirens

With the sound of a whip

With a song

With a strobe light
11 What are Winston and John doing in the beginning of the play?
Sweeping the floors

Having a drink at a pub

Relaxing on a break

Digging sand
12 What do they have to do after digging?
Do pushups

Recite a mantra

Lick the boots of a guard

Run while handcuffed
13 What injury does Winston sustain?
He bites his tongue

He breaks a toe

He sprains his ankle

He gets hit in the eye
14 What injury does John sustain?
He gets hit in the eye

He gets a bloody nose

He sprains his ankle

He breaks his arm
15 How does John try and clean Winston's eye?
With urine

With milk

With a piece of toilet paper

With water
16 Who is the guard that they hate?
Hodoshe

Adonis

Arno

Jabulani
17 What is "Hodoshe" a word for?
Overlord

Carrion fly

Parasite

God
18 What part of the island do the men enjoy going to?
The lagoon

The caves

The sandpits

The quarry
19 Which of the men's body parts begins to bleed, suddenly?
Their mouths

Their noses

Their ears

Their elbows
20 "Black Domination lost its ________"
Shoes

Crown

Balance

Hat
21 Who does John say he hated, while shoveling sand that morning?
Winston

His father

Hodoshe

God
22 What does John take out to make a necklace?
Rusty nails

Flowers

Straw

Rocks
23 Why does he want to make a necklace?
For a production of King Lear they are doing

As a symbol of their homeland

As a symbol of their brotherhood

For a production of Antigone they are doing
24 What character is John playing in the performance?
Eteocles

Ismene

Creon

Antigone
25 What character is Winston playing?
Eteocles

Antigone

Creon

Ismene