Cleanroom Quiz Movie Edition

What movie is considered the first to accurately portray a cleanroom?

• a) Coma
• b) The Andromeda Strain✅Explanation: The Andromeda Strain includes extensive cleanroom scenes at a fictional top-secret lab called Wildfire, designed to handle extraterrestrial pathogens. The earliest accurate portrayals of bio-containment environments, featuring: Full-body sterilization protocols, Multi-level containment zones, Air showers and suits resembling real-life cleanroom gear
• c) Outbreak
• d) Alien

What movie shows the complex safety measures scientists must navigate while conducting vital research and what happens when it all goes wrong?

• a) Spiderman: Homecoming
• b) Ironman
• c) Outbreak ✅Explanation: Outbreak’s opening scene shows the audience a look through the doors of a military research facility from a low risk lab to the lab section to a controlled environment where scientists study extreme biohazards.
• d) Superman

What movie closely portrays NASA spacecraft assembly and quarantine procedures?

• a) Sunshine
• b) The Martian ✅Explanation: The Martian shows NASA scientists working in realistic conditions, prepping the Mars mission.
• c) Mission Impossible
• d) Top Gun:Maverik

What Will Smith thriller includes flashbacks to a cleanroom lab prior to a wide spread virus in New York city?

• a) Men in Black
• b) Jersey Girl
• c) Wild Wild West
• d) I Am Legend✅Explanation: Strategic movements during gowning prevent cross-contamination.

In what movie could a cleanroom have prevented a scientist from merging his dna with a fly in a matter transportation accident?

• a) The Fly ✅The fly finds Jeff Goldblum and a fly’s DNA getting combined to form a horrifying creature.
• b) The Guyver
• c) Trolls
• d) The Thing