# 🦈 Jaws Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. Who directed the movie *Jaws*?  
**Answer:** Steven Spielberg  
**Taglines:**  
- Baby Spielberg’s big, bloody breakthrough  
- The shark that built a career  
- Before dinosaurs, there were dorsal fins  
- Spielberg said “splash,” and Hollywood listened  
- How to traumatize America: a primer  

### 2. What year was *Jaws* released?  
**Answer:** 1975  
**Taglines:**  
- The summer swimming died  
- 1975: disco and dorsal fear  
- Jaws dropped and so did beach attendance  
- A cinematic sharknado before CGI  
- The ‘70s gave us bell bottoms and bite marks  

### 3. What fictional town is the setting of *Jaws*?  
**Answer:** Amity Island  
**Taglines:**  
- Where the mayor says “swim anyway!”  
- Amity: friendship, if your friend is a shark  
- Home of the worst beach day ever  
- Sharks love Amity—they eat free  
- “Safe” is just a suggestion  

### 4. What is the name of the shark-hunting boat in *Jaws*?  
**Answer:** The Orca  
**Taglines:**  
- Orca: ironically not the killer in this story  
- Floating coffin with a radio  
- One boat, one shark, zero good ideas  
- Not enough vessel, too much teeth  
- Welcome aboard the “Nope” express  

### 5. What actor played police chief Martin Brody?  
**Answer:** Roy Scheider  
**Taglines:**  
- The man, the myth, the shark snack  
- Scheider said, “We’re gonna need a bigger résumé”  
- Chief Brody: barely holding it together  
- Roy brought the real fear  
- No badge can stop Jaws  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. The famous line “You’re gonna need a bigger ______” became iconic.  
**Answer:** Boat  
**Taglines:**  
- Greatest understatement in cinema  
- Said every fisherman ever since  
- Spielberg’s official slogan  
- Needs more float, less snack  
- The line that launched a thousand memes  

### 2. The mechanical shark used in filming was nicknamed ______.  
**Answer:** Bruce  
**Taglines:**  
- Bruce: the diva of the deep  
- Named after Spielberg’s lawyer—ouch  
- Malfunctioning menace with a moniker  
- Shark with an attitude and a sag card  
- Bruce: the animatronic with issues  

### 3. The composer of the *Jaws* theme was ______ Williams.  
**Answer:** John  
**Taglines:**  
- Two notes, pure anxiety  
- John: maestro of menace  
- From sharks to space to wizards  
- Made “dun dun” a threat  
- Music that makes you wet yourself  

### 4. Quint, the shark hunter, is killed by being ______.  
**Answer:** Eaten  
**Taglines:**  
- RIP salty sea bro  
- Captain Ahab, but with fewer metaphors  
- Shark: 1, Harpoon guy: 0  
- Death by dental appointment  
- A meal with monologue seasoning  

### 5. The final explosion that kills the shark is caused by a tank of ______.  
**Answer:** Compressed air  
**Taglines:**  
- The shark bit off more than it could blow  
- Smile, you son of a boom  
- OSHA violations for cinematic glory  
- Pressurized and pulverized  
- Shark went pop  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What kind of shark is Jaws?  
A) Hammerhead  
B) Great White ✅  
C) Tiger  
D) Bull  
**Taglines:**  
- The great white hype  
- Big fish, big problems  
- Jaws: not just any shark  
- Ocean’s top-tier terror  
- Your dentist’s worst nightmare  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] Which actor played the salty sea captain Quint?  
A) Richard Dreyfuss  
B) Robert Shaw ✅  
C) Roy Scheider  
D) Gene Hackman  
**Taglines:**  
- Robert Shaw, teeth first  
- Quint: fisherman, philosopher, filet  
- Delivered doom with style  
- One speech, one scream  
- Died doing what he loved—getting eaten  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What did Jaws help invent in Hollywood?  
A) 3D cinema  
B) The summer blockbuster ✅  
C) Product placement  
D) Shark rights  
**Taglines:**  
- Big bite, big bucks  
- Blockbuster: now in blood red  
- Blame this for every Marvel July release  
- Summer started screaming  
- Movies got hot and horrifying  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] What real-life event partly inspired the plot of *Jaws*?  
A) Titanic sinking  
B) The Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 ✅  
C) The Bermuda Triangle disappearances  
D) Captain Cook’s journals  
**Taglines:**  
- Jersey: not just Snooki’s problem  
- Sharks: East Coast OGs  
- Based on a true “Oh hell no”  
- 1916: when swimming became stressful  
- Shark Week: historical edition  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] What happens immediately after the shark dies?  
A) Chief Brody swims to shore ✅  
B) The boat sinks  
C) A second shark appears  
D) Quint comes back to life  
**Taglines:**  
- One wet walk home  
- Hero exits via breaststroke  
- Just keep swimming... away from the corpse  
- Brody: exhausted, damp, victorious  
- No sequel setups here... just kidding
