Characters in 'Orange is the New Black' Quiz

Answer: Drug smuggling

Piper, played by Taylor Schilling, is sent to prison for her involvement in a drug smuggling operation. In a scene where she tells her parents about her crime she says that she only smuggled money not actual drugs.

Answer: Pornstache

Mendez is a corrupt Corrections Officer who supplies drugs to the women in the prison. The women nickname him 'Pornstache' because they think his moustache makes him look like a porn actor.

Answer: Russia

Galina Reznikov is nearly always known by the nickname 'Red'. At the start of season one she is in charge of the prison kitchen. She is a mother figure within the prison and looks out for a number of the other women.

Answer: An infection after going in a dirty hot tub

John Bennett was in the Army before starting to work as a Corrections Officer. When it first becomes known that John Bennett has an artificial leg, the characters suppose that he lost it while serving in the military however it is later revealed that he had to have it amputated after contracting an infection from a dirty hot tub.

Answer: Taystee

Taystee was orphaned and was a ward of the state when she was a child. She works in the prison library. In episode 8 of series 1 Taystee finds out that her appeal has been successful and she is going to be released. However, Taystee finds life outside the prison hard and in episode 12 she returns to the prison.

Answer: True

Prisoner Jane Ingalls is a Catholic nun. Because of this the other characters normally refer to her as sister (the form of address for a nun) rather than her name. She was sent to prison because she handcuffed herself to a flagpole during a protest against nuclear testing.

Answer: Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett

Tiffany was sent to prison for shooting a worker at an abortion clinic. Although she shot the worker for making a sarcastic comment about the number of abortions she had undergone because there was a Christian protest outside the clinic at the time Tiffany's actions were believed to be part of the protest. On the back of this, she became a fundamentalist Christian.

Answer: Alex

Alex Vause, played by Laura Prepon, is Piper's ex lover. It was Alex who got Piper involved in drug smuggling and she named Piper as being involved thus resulting in Piper going to prison.

Answer: Daya

Dayanara Diaz, normally known as Daya, has a relationship with CO Bennett. At first they flirt and leave message for each other but things get more complicated when Daya becomes pregnant with Bennett's baby.

Answer: Runs a salon

Sophia Burset runs a hair and beauty salon. The character has undergone gender realignment treatment and was previously a firefighter called Marcus. She is in prison because she stole credit cards to pay for the operations she needed as part of the gender realignment treatment.