Top Gun
Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun Codenames
Music of Top Gun
Modern Family of Fighter Jets
In the Navy & Air Force
100
This is the year Top Gun came out in movie theaters
What is 1986?
100
Pete Mitchell, also known as Maverick, is now a test pilot & instructor for the US Navy, who is played by this movie actor known for Paramount & action films such as Mission: Impossible
Who is Tom Cruise?
100
Pete Mitchell, played by Tom Cruise, is best known by this codename (which is also the name of the sequel to Top Gun that came out in 2022)
Maverick?
100
“Take My Breath Away” is a prominent love song featured in Top Gun, sung by this rock band named after this German capitol city
What is Berlin?
100
The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is best known by this flight demonstration squadron whose colors are blue & gold, and they usually perform air shows during Fleet Week
Who are the Blue Angels?
100
The United States Navy & Air Force, along other US military/armed forces branches, are currently overseen by this US government department whose headquarters is in the Pentagon
What is the United States Department of Defense?
200
In Top Gun’s iconic beach scene, the TOPGUN Trophy competitors play this sport involving spiking a ball over a net
What is volleyball?/What is beach volleyball?
200
Miles Teller plays Lieutenant Bradley Bradshaw, a pilot in the mission training group & the son of the late Nick “Goose” Bradshaw, whose codename is an animal known for making noises during sunrise
What is Rooster?
200
Anthony Edwards played Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) LTJG Nick Bradshaw, whose codename is named after a type of bird
Goose?
200
Best known for “Celebrate Me Home” & “Footloose”, Kenny Loggins has a song featured in Top Gun called “Highway to the (blank)”
What is Danger Zone?
200
This fighter jet manufactured by Grumman was used in the original Top Gun movie, and it’s known for its adjustable "swinging" wings
What is a F-14 Tomcat?
200
The TOPGUN program was merged into the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada, during the same year the Summer Olympics took place in Atlanta, Georgia
What is 1996?
300
This is where the events of Top Gun take place, at this Marine Corps Air Station in Southern California
What is Miramar, California?/What is Miramar, San Diego, California?
300
As a homage to the iconic beach volleyball scene, the TOPGUN pilot mission candidates play this sport notably played during the fall for high school, college & the NFL
What is football?/What is gridiron football?
300
In Top Gun: Maverick, Monica Barbaro plays Lieutenant Natasha Trace, whose codename is named after a type of firebird that can resurrect itself
Phoenix?
300
One of the scenes in Top Gun featured Maverick & Goose playing & singing this song by Jerry Lee Lewis at a bar
What is Great Balls of Fire?
300
As of 2022, this is the US military’s latest fighter jet, manufactured by Lockheed Martin
What is the F-35 Lightning?
300
This is the year the United States Air Force was founded, which was part of the United States Army until 1947, when it became a separate branch of the US Armed Forces
What is 1907?
400
This was the cause of death for LTJG Nick “Goose” Bradshaw
What is blunt force head trauma?/What is hitting the jettisoned air canopy head-first while ejecting?
400
The events of Top Gun: Maverick, released in 2022, takes place at Naval Air Station North Island, the location of the TOPGUN program, located in this peninsula in San Diego, California
What is Coronado?
400
Val Kilmer plays Lieutenant (later Admiral) Tom Kazansky, whose codename is coincidentally named after this X-Men character known for cytokinesis
Iceman?
400
She’s best known under this stage name for her hit songs such as Born this Way, plus she worked with Harold Faltermeyer & Hans Zimmer on the music score for Top Gun: Maverick
Who is Lady Gaga?
400
Although not featured in Top Gun: Maverick, this is the American 5th-generation fighter jet counterpart to the Sukhoi Su-57, made by Lockheed Martin
What is the F-22 Raptor?
400
This is the year the United States Navy was founded, whose origin is traced to the Continental Navy during the American Revolution
What is 1794? (The Continental Navy was founded in 1775)
500
In Top Gun, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell shoots down several MiGs, but in reality, during filming, they were portrayed by this Cold War-era American fighter jet made by Northrop
What is the F-5?
500
Pete Mitchell tests-flights a prototype hypersonic jet called “Darkstar” at the start of the film, which is a (in-universe) successor to the SR-71, named after this type of bird
What is a blackbird?
500
Glen Powell plays Lieutenant Jake Seresin, whose codename is named after a game where you have to guess the correct letters to complete a word before a person is drawn
Hangman?
500
Maverick, Goose & the TOPGUN pilots serenaded TOPGUN instructor Charlotte “Charlie” Blackwood to this 1964 song by The Righteous Brothers; it was also played at the end of Top Gun
What is You Lost That Lovin’ Feeling?
500
Along with the F-22 Raptor, this Russian 5th-Generation fighter jet, codenamed “Felon” by NATO, was used as the antagonist fighter jets of an unnamed rogue nation in the climax of Top Gun: Maverick
What is the Sukhoi Su-57?
500
Founded on March 3, 1969, this is the technical name for TOPGUN, a training program teaching fighter & strike tactics/techniques to select naval aviators & naval flight officers
What is the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program?