Can You Ace This “Jaws” Quiz?

Much of the filming was done on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

The plate is from Louisiana, suggesting the shark came up from the Gulf.

He explains the root of his fear very concisely: "Drowning."

It's implausible that this draws the shark, as sharks are drawn by irregular and vigorous splashing.

Given Quint's penchant for drink, showing up staggering would have worked, too.

Once in the pond, the shark kills a boater.

Nowadays. it's unlikely someone would be admitted overnight -- but this was prior to HMOs!

Hooper is immediately skeptical because of the animal's smaller bite radius.

An underwater shot shows the bulk of the shark's body sinking to the seafloor like a battleship going down.

Quint's death -- with the shark jumping halfway up onto the deck -- is a little hard to swallow. (Sorry!)

First the shark tooth, now the gun -- Hooper needs some kind of waterproof lanyard so he can quit dropping things!

Quint is a glory hound who doesn't want help; Brody is nervous and wants all the help they can get.

"Orca" is a whale. Fun fact: the film's first potential director was passed over for using "shark" and "whale" interchangeably.

The town's merchants look forward to the influx of tourist dollars from the holiday.

The closing shot shows them heading home with Amity Island in the near distance.

He and Robert Shaw reportedly didn't get along, which might have been useful in creating tension between their characters.

The shark is distracted by its continuing attempts to mangle the cage; Hooper slips out the other side.

His wife tries to teach him local pronunciation of "yard" and "car" early in the film.

During the exchange, Brody is silent, only once looking sheepishly at his own appendectomy scar.

Hooper has a dart gun and intends to inject the shark with strychnine.

His drinking caused some difficulties on set, like when he went "method" and got drunk to deliver his original "USS Indianapolis" monologue.

Quint's monologue about the ship's sinking is one of the movie's high points.

We see his business advertised on his car as he arrives at the docks in his first scene.

The string of movies spawned an irrational fear of sharks; novelist Benchley spent a lot of his later life remorsefully working for ocean conservation.

Quint thinks Hooper is a city-bred tenderfoot.

He's trying to give the mayor an idea of its size.

The finall toll: Chrissy the skinny-dipper, little Alex Kintner, the man seen in the broken boat, the boater in the pond, and Quint.

Hooper dropped the "shot-glass-sized" tooth, and this allows the mayor to be skeptical, and to protect those tourist dollars.

The dog was director Spielberg's own, Elmer.

$10,000 is Quint's price for catching the shark.