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1 Who are the two main clone characters in The Island?
Answer: Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta

The names of the clones come from the last name of the clone's sponsor, the corporation-specific area codes of the sponsor's home, and a generation corresponding to the year they were created. Lincoln is male, and Jordan is female.
2 Ewan McGregor played two characters in the movie. What were their names?
Answer: Lincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln

Lincoln Six Echo was Tom Lincoln's clone. There were many scenes with both characters interacting with each other. The character Tom Lincoln was from Scotland, so Ewan was able to speak with his natural accent, unlike the character Lincoln Six Echo, who had an American accent.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Island.
3 What is the name of the corporation where the clones are being held?
Answer: Merrick Biotech

Merrick Biotech is located in a secluded area in the Arizona desert, near Route 39. It is miles away from civilisation, and potential buyers must be flown in to be cloned.
4 What did the inhabitants of the community think "The Island" was?
Answer: The last uncontaminated spot left on the planet

The inhabitants thought they were there because they were survivors of a planet that was contaminated. They were told that they were special. They needed to keep them hidden from the rest of the world, because no one outside the community knew they existed. The were clones of people in the world. Even their sponsors were not aware that they were living and breathing beings.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Island.
5 When Lincoln and Jordan crash through a glass building, what letter of the alphabet (used as the company's logo) do the pair fall onto?
Answer: R

Lincoln and Jordan are trapped in the centre of the R, with gunmen from above shooting down on them and gunmen in a helicopter shooting directly at them. However, they (luckily) avoid the situation when the R falls and promptly destroys the helicopter, and they fall storeys below onto old scaffolding.
6 When talking to Albert Laurent, what did Merrick say the island was?
Answer: A fictional creation, to give the inhabitants hope

He felt he had to give them something to look forward to. Having the island was also very useful because he needed an excuse for why some of the inhabitants were leaving.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Island.
7 Which Merrick employee, nicknamed "Mac", is the main source of help for Lincoln and Jordan after they escape?
Answer: James McCord

Mac is shot and killed at the train station where the three plan an escape to Los Angeles. Lincoln and Jordan manage to board the train after an action sequence in which the duo manages to subdue the Merrick employee chasing them by shooting him with a nail gun. Lincoln would add insult to injury by beating him down a bit more before escaping onto the train.
8 Who is the bounty hunter chasing Lincoln and Jordan through Los Angeles?
Answer: Albert Laurent

Laurent, a French man, was part of the French Special Forces. He was branded on his hand during the Burkinabe Rebellion, a sign from his attackers that he is "less than human".
9 What are the inhabitants of the community?
Answer: Clone

They are exact clones of their sponsors. They are implanted with small memories of a life that they supposedly had before the contamination. At this point, only upper class people are able to afford their very own clone.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Island.
10 What is the name of the football player who sponsored the clone, who breaks out of anesthesia and attacks multiple guards before being harpooned?
Answer: Jamil Starkweather

Starkweather is played by big man Michael Clarke Duncan. In the DVD director's commentary, director Michael Bay states that he asked Duncan to be in the film to repay him for casting him in "Armageddon". Duncan, of course, accepted.
11 One of Ewan's characters was very curious about his surroundings. What did he find that made him believe there was no contamination?
Answer: A flying bug

Lincoln had a friend who worked beyond the restricted areas of the community. Lincoln was exploring and he found a moth. He couldn't understand how the moth could have survived the contamination, because it was too big.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Island.
12 During his time at the Merrick Corporation, Lincoln befriends two fellow clones, Gandu and Jones. Gandu, like Lincoln, is curious about his surroundings and is killed to prevent a leak about the clones' true surroundings. How is he killed?
Answer: Poisoned

He is poisoned by Dr. Merrick. Gandu is played by Brian Stepanek. Stepanek is well-known for his role on the popular children's show, "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" as Arwin, the nerdy custodian.
13 When Ewan and Scarlett's characters escape the community, they go to Los Angeles and Scarlett's character sees her sponsor in a commercial. What product is the commercial for?
Answer: A Calvin Klein fragrance

It is a real commercial for Calvin Klein's, Eternity Moment. The commercial also stars Trent Ford. When she sees this ad, she has feelings of confusion and love. She can tell that the characters in the commercial are in love and she realizes she may have the same feelings for Lincoln.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Island.
14 Albert Laurent, the man hired to track the escapees, went soft and helped them out in the end. He noticed the markings on Scarlett's character's wrist and told Merrick about how he was also branded. Why did he say he was branded?
Answer: To show that he was less human

After capturing Jordan, he was in the car with her and he noticed the markings on her wrist. He saw a human side of her when she started to cry. After bringing her back, he was talking with Merrick about how during war, his father was killed and then he and his family were captured and branded. They treated him like he was less of a human, becase he was a slave. The clones were branded to keep track of them.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Island.
15 What does Lincoln use to kill the namesake of the Merrick Corporation, and the antagonist of The Island, Dr. Merrick?
Answer: Harpoon Gun

While Merrick is choking him in an action-packed sequence, Lincoln manages to shoot Merrick in the neck with a harpoon gun. After the implosion of the hologram room, the two are stuck hanging by the gun, with Lincoln having a harpoon in his back and Merrick having the other in his neck. Merrick is hanged.
16 What character said this quote? "Well, excuse me Miss I'm-so-smart-I-can't-wait-to-go-to-the-Island!"
Answer: McCord

He was explaining to Jordan the difference between backpacks and purses and she responded with, "We're not idiots". This conversation happened right after Lincoln and Jordan escaped the community. McCord was helping them. This quote helped us understand how much knowledge of the outside world the clones really had.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Island.
17 At the end of the film, Lincoln and Jordan sail off in a boat that Lincoln's sponsor designed. What is the name of the boat?
Answer: Renovatio

Renovatio is the Latin word for "rebirth". The boat is shown three times during the film; at the beginning in a dream sequence, in the middle in Lincoln's drawing, and at the end in the boat ride.
18 Why did they have to recall some of the inhabitants?
Answer: Because Ewan's character started having memories and they were part of his series

Lincoln Six Echo was starting to have memories of Tom Lincoln, his sponsor. He drew a boat and showed it to Merrick. The boat was one that had never been shown to any of the clones. Tom Lincoln, designed speed boats, cars and motorcycles, and owned the particular boat that Lincoln Six Echo drew. They discovered that it was a glitch, so they recalled all of the members from the Echo series.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Island.
19 What was Starkweather's (Michael Clark Duncan's character) sponsor's profession?
Answer: Football Player

There was a very large billboard of the football player in Las Angeles. The football player needed a transplant, so he was able to use his clone. They killed Starkweather, prepared the organ for the transplant.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Island.
20 What did Ewan's character's sponsor design?
Answer: All of these

He said he always loved doing it, but he never thought he would get rich off of it. He designed the boat that Lincoln Six Echo drew for Merrick.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Island.
21 When Ewan and Scarlett's characters were on a letter hanging from a building, what was the letter?
Answer: R

Lincoln and Jordan were being chased and they entered a building on their flying vehicle. They crashed out the other end of the building onto the letter 'R'. Eventually, the entire letter fell off of the building with them on it. At this point in the movie, you start to realize that they are survivors. They are like other people, because they have a strong will to live.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Island.
22 How old was Scarlett's character?
Answer: 4

She was created 4 years before. Which meant her sponsor purchased the product at that time. Her sponsor was very ill and needed a transplant. Her character won the lottery the night before they escaped.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Island.