The Island Quizzes

The Island Quiz 1

1 Who is the famous playwright behind the play?
Bertolt Brecht

Samuel Beckett

Martin McDonagh

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

Samuel Beckett

Bertolt Brecht

Heidi Schreck
3 Where does the play take place?
America

South Africa

England

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

Rikers Island

Robben Island

Pretoria Central Prison
5 When was the play first performed?
1975

1987

1969

1973
6 Where was it first performed?
Johannesburg

Cape Town

Vereeniging

New York
7 Who starred in the play on Broadway?
Winston Ntshona & John Kani

Danny Glover and Mel Gibson

Trevor Noah

Charlize Theron
8 When was Athol Fugard born?
1956

1932

1920

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

Winston Ntshona and John Kani

Athol Fugard

Bertolt Brecht
10 How does the play start?
With the sound of sirens

With a strobe light

With a song

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

Relaxing on a break

Having a drink at a pub

Digging sand
12 What do they have to do after digging?
Lick the boots of a guard

Do pushups

Recite a mantra

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

He gets hit in the eye

He breaks a toe

He sprains his ankle
14 What injury does John sustain?
He breaks his arm

He gets hit in the eye

He sprains his ankle

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

With milk

With water

With a piece of toilet paper
16 Who is the guard that they hate?
Jabulani

Arno

Hodoshe

Adonis
17 What is "Hodoshe" a word for?
Parasite

Carrion fly

Overlord

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 ears

Their elbows

Their noses
20 "Black Domination lost its ________"
Shoes

Crown

Balance

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

Winston

God

His father
22 What does John take out to make a necklace?
Flowers

Straw

Rusty nails

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

As a symbol of their brotherhood

As a symbol of their homeland

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

Creon

Eteocles

Ismene
25 What character is Winston playing?
Antigone

Eteocles

Ismene

Creon