The Island Quizzes

The Island Quiz 1

1 Who is the famous playwright behind the play?
Athol Fugard

Bertolt Brecht

Martin McDonagh

Samuel Beckett
2 Who helped him write the play?
Heidi Schreck

John Kani and Winston Ntshona

Bertolt Brecht

Samuel Beckett
3 Where does the play take place?
Ghana

England

South Africa

America
4 What prison is the prison in the play based on?
Rikers Island

Robben Island

Pollsmoor Prison

Pretoria Central Prison
5 When was the play first performed?
1969

1987

1973

1975
6 Where was it first performed?
New York

Cape Town

Johannesburg

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

Winston Ntshona & John Kani

Trevor Noah

Danny Glover and Mel Gibson
8 When was Athol Fugard born?
1920

1956

1932

1940
9 Who won a Tony when the play was on Broadway?
Cameron McIntosh

Winston Ntshona and John Kani

Bertolt Brecht

Athol Fugard
10 How does the play start?
With the sound of a whip

With the sound of sirens

With a strobe light

With a song
11 What are Winston and John doing in the beginning of the play?
Having a drink at a pub

Relaxing on a break

Sweeping the floors

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

Lick the boots of a guard

Run while handcuffed

Recite a mantra
13 What injury does Winston sustain?
He sprains his ankle

He bites his tongue

He breaks a toe

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

He breaks his arm

He sprains his ankle

He gets a bloody nose
15 How does John try and clean Winston's eye?
With water

With a piece of toilet paper

With milk

With urine
16 Who is the guard that they hate?
Adonis

Arno

Jabulani

Hodoshe
17 What is "Hodoshe" a word for?
God

Overlord

Carrion fly

Parasite
18 What part of the island do the men enjoy going to?
The quarry

The lagoon

The caves

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

Their elbows

Their ears

Their noses
20 "Black Domination lost its ________"
Shoes

Hat

Crown

Balance
21 Who does John say he hated, while shoveling sand that morning?
God

His father

Hodoshe

Winston
22 What does John take out to make a necklace?
Rocks

Straw

Flowers

Rusty nails
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

Antigone

Creon

Ismene
25 What character is Winston playing?
Ismene

Creon

Eteocles

Antigone