Cleanroom Quiz TV Edition

What dramedy that aired from (2014-2019) featured chip design, sticky mats, boots, and ordered gowning in a simulated ISO class 5-7 cleanroom?

• a) Sons of Anarchy
• b) Silicon Valley✅Explanation: Silicon Valley showed the ins and outs of chip manufacturing in multiple episodes across its 5-year run.
• c) Mad Men
• d) The Walking Dead

What Apple TV show explores the assembly of NASA spacecraft and lunar equipment prep?

• a) Futurama
• b) Severance
• c) For All Mankind ✅Explanation: For All Mankind is known for its technical accuracy, and the NASA cleanroom scenes are modeled after the real-life Johnson Space Center standards.
• d) Big Bang Theory

The squints solved mysteries using high tech cleanrooms and and special equipment on which Fox show?

• a) Hell’s Kitchen
• b) Bones ✅Explanation: Bones, is the show where Dr Brennan and her team work in highly sterile environments with glass walls, clean benches, laminar flow hoods, and sometimes use masks, gloves, and bunny suits. There is a lot of dramatization with many of the benches being open to allow for the audience to have clearer views.
• c) Bob’s Burgers
• d) The Simpsons

In season 10 of this highly popular nerd show the gang builds a guidance system protoype at Caltech. (Choose one)

• a) Big Bang Theory
• ✅Explanation: In Big Bang Theory, while the bunny suits and sticky mats are accurate, the movement in the cleanroom scenes is exaggerated for comedy.
• b) Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• c) Trailer Park Boys
• d) Buffy the Vampire Slayer

What investigative police procedural TV show often uses cleanroom protocols in episodes dealing with semiconductors, aerospace, or biohazards?

• a) CSI ✅Using suits, gloves, and glass-walled labs, CSI episodes dealing with semiconductors, aerospace parts, or biohazard pathogens are often modeled on real ISO spaces.
• b) NYPD Blue
• c) S.W.A.T.
• d) Hawaii 5.0