80s Action Movies
Classic Rock
TV Show Theme Songs
Space...The Final Frontier
Ames Research Center
100

Included the famous line, "I'll be back."

The Terminator (1984)

100

He's remembered mainly in pop culture for his little ditty about Jack's exploits with Diane.

John Cougar Mellencamp

100

Sometimes you want to go / Where everybody knows your name

Cheers

100

How many planets are in the solar system?

Eight planets

100

What does CVSRF stand for?

Crew-Vehicle Systems Research Facility

200

The main character, Snake Plissken, inspired the Metal Gear Solid video game series.

Escape from New York (1981)

200

Their overnight success with 1986's pop-metal classic 'Slippery When Wet' had actually taken a few years. They had a Top 40 hit from a self-titled debut two years before, then released a gold-selling sophomore project, '7800° Fahrenheit.'

Bon Jovi

200

I'll be there for you / When the rain starts to fall

Friends

200

The Space Center in Houston is named for this president, who was an early advocate of manned space flight.

President Lyndon B. Johnson

200

What year did Ames and Google disclose details to a long-term research partnership?

2005

300

This John Carpenter movie was mostly filmed on location in Chinatown, and the character David Lo Pan has been credited as the original inspiration for the soul-stealing Mortal Kombat villain Shang Tsung.

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

300

By their 10th album, Peter Cetera had scored an easy-listening No. 1 hit with 1976's "If You Leave Me Now," and the band moved into a new direction.

Chicago

300

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

SpongeBob SquarePants

300

What is the most common type of star found in the Milky Way?

Red dwarf stars

300

Who is Ames named after?

Joseph Sweetman Ames

400

Stanley Kubrik's film has video clips shared widely among fans, mostly concerning R. Lee Ermey's infamous drill instructor.

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

400

They reeled off nine Top 10 singles, and six straight platinum albums. After that, singer Lou Gramm began an on-again, off-again relationship with the band, and they struggled to regain their footing.

Foreigner

400

I wanna be the very best / Like no one ever was / To catch them is my real test / To train them is my cause

Pokemon

400

Alan Shepard's many accolades included a Medal of Honor for space and a Langley medal from this institution.

The Smithsonian

400

What year was the Center founded as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) laboratory.

1939

500

It might surprise you that this film was listed in the action category, but these brothers are on "a mission from God," and they'll do anything to get the band back together.

The Blues Brothers (1980)

500

She was already a multi-million-selling artist as a member of Fleetwood Mac when she began a parallel solo career in the early '80s – and that streak continued.

Stevie Nicks

500

Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice / Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake

Fairly Odd Parents

500

A 1990 photo of Earth taken by this space probe prompted Carl Sagan to call planet Earth a "pale blue dot."

Voyager 1

500

In 2008, it was announced that former Ames director _________ was a 60th Anniversary Class inductee of the Ames Hall of Fame for providing, "...exceptional leadership and keen technical insight to NASA Ames as the Center re-invented itself in the late 1990s."

Henry McDonald