Q 01/05

Which actor plays Vincent Freeman, the man who fakes his genetic identity, in Gattaca?

A) Matt Damon

B) Ethan Hawke

C) Leonardo DiCaprio

D) Christian Slater

Answer · why

B) Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke called the Gattaca script one of the more interesting he had read in years. He later made two more films with its writer-director.

Q 02/05

In Gattaca, Vincent Freeman spends years faking his identity to join a crewed mission to which moon?

A) Europa

B) Triton

C) Titan

D) Ganymede

Answer · why

C) Titan

Titan is the largest moon of Saturn, and the flight there gives the film its deadline: a murder at Vincent's workplace comes one week before launch.

Q 03/05

Gattaca's title uses the initials of four DNA bases: guanine, thymine, cytosine and which other?

A) Uracil

B) Alanine

C) Arginine

D) Adenine

Answer · why

D) Adenine

Adenine supplies the title's three A's: the name is spelled only with G, A, T and C, the letters used to write out a genetic sequence.

Q 04/05

Gattaca's headquarters was filmed at a Marin County civic center designed by which architect?

A) Frank Lloyd Wright

B) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

C) Richard Neutra

D) Eero Saarinen

Answer · why

A) Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright's building was leaking and neglected by the mid-1990s, and the Gattaca crew cleaned up parts of it while filming there in 1996.

Q 05/05

Which US senator's 2013 speech lifted lines nearly verbatim from Wikipedia's Gattaca plot summary?

A) Ted Cruz

B) Rand Paul

C) Marco Rubio

D) Mike Lee

Answer · why

B) Rand Paul

Rand Paul gave the speech at Liberty University while backing a candidate for Virginia governor, using the film to warn against genetic selection.