Q 01/05

Who directed Top Gun?

A) James Cameron

B) John Carpenter

C) Tony Scott

D) Jerry Bruckheimer

Answer · why

C) Tony Scott

Tony Scott. He had made only one feature, the vampire film The Hunger, but its look and his years of glossy TV adverts won the producers over.

Q 02/05

Which film sold Top Gun's producers on Tom Cruise?

A) The Outsiders

B) Risky Business

C) All the Right Moves

D) Taps

Answer · why

B) Risky Business

Risky Business. Once signed, Cruise spent the months before the shoot sitting in on real Top Gun classes and socialising with the Navy's pilots.

Q 03/05

Which actor plays Goose, Maverick's back-seater and best friend?

A) Judd Nelson

B) John Cusack

C) Eric Stoltz

D) Anthony Edwards

Answer · why

D) Anthony Edwards

Anthony Edwards. His Goose is killed when both men eject from a spinning jet and he strikes its canopy; Maverick later drops his dog tags into the sea...

Q 04/05

Who plays Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky in Top Gun?

A) Val Kilmer

B) Tom Skerritt

C) Michael Ironside

D) Rick Rossovich

Answer · why

A) Val Kilmer

Val Kilmer. He thought the script silly and didn't want the part, but a contract with the studio left him no choice.

Q 05/05

Who plays civilian instructor Charlotte 'Charlie' Blackwood?

A) Meg Ryan

B) Demi Moore

C) Brooke Shields

D) Kelly McGillis

Answer · why

D) Kelly McGillis

Kelly McGillis. She had just starred opposite Harrison Ford in Witness; decades later she said plainly that nobody had asked her back for the sequel.