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50 free Jaws 2 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Jaws 2 had an impossible job: follow the film that set the template for the summer blockbuster, without its director and with a star who did not want to be there. The shoot ran long, changed directors midstream and wrestled with mechanical sharks that corroded in salt water, yet the film set an opening-weekend record and is still widely regarded as the best of the sequels. This quiz covers the whole story. On screen, that means Chief Brody's second summer of trouble in Amity: the early attacks, the town that will not listen, the teenagers stranded at sea and the way the shark finally meets its end. Behind the camera, it means casting battles, script rewrites, the building of the new sharks and the locations that stood in for Amity. It is written for fans who have seen the film more than once, but plenty of questions can be reasoned out by anyone who knows the original. Every answer comes with a short explanation, including the two things people most often ask: how long the shark was and how many of them there were.
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Q 01Which real sharks circled the teenage actors of Jaws 2 while the distant crew took their cries for acting?
Hammerheads
Hammerheads circled the young cast during one shot, and because their characters were meant to be in distress, the crew filming from a distance did not realise the calls for help were real.
Q 02What kills the shark at the climax of Jaws 2, after Brody lures it toward his inflatable raft?
Electrocution
Electrocution ends the sequel: Brody beats an oar against an undersea power line until the shark bites down on it. It was also the last sequence the crew filmed on location.
Q 03What did the Jaws 2 actors hold in their mouths during cold December filming to hide their visible breath?
Ice cubes
Ice cubes chilled their mouths so no breath would fog on camera: a story set in high summer was still shooting days before Christmas.
Q 04Which rescue craft does the shark drag under as it starts to tow the stranded teenagers in Jaws 2?
A helicopter
A helicopter from the Harbor Patrol sets down on its floats to tow the wrecked boats, and the shark bites a pontoon and tips it over. The pilot drowns.
Q 05Which US president's daughter was hired to shoot publicity photographs on the set of Jaws 2?
Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford's daughter Susan, a trained photojournalist, took the stills, and many of them were printed in the official book about the making of the film.
Q 06Where is oceanographer Matt Hooper when Chief Brody tries to call him for help in Jaws 2?
Antarctica
Antarctica, on a research expedition, is where the script sends Hooper. Richard Dreyfuss had declined to come back because Steven Spielberg was not directing.
Q 07Jaws 2 set an opening-weekend record in June 1978 despite sharing its release day with which hit musical?
Grease
Grease took about $9 million that weekend, yet the shark sequel beat it with the biggest opening weekend any film had managed up to then.
Q 08Which country gave Jaws 2 the suffix 'Part 2' because the plain number made its title sound like a swear word?
France
France knew the series as Les Dents de la mer, and adding deux after mer sounded like merde, so the sequel took the suffix Part 2 instead.
Q 09How many new mechanical sharks were built for Jaws 2 after the originals were found rusted beyond repair?
Three
Three were built, led by a platform shark with a new head and jowls, though the story itself features only one shark. Of the old models, only the bare frames could be saved.
Q 10Howard Sackler first pitched Jaws 2 as a prequel about the sinking of which warship from a famous Jaws speech?
USS Indianapolis
USS Indianapolis, the ship whose sinking Quint recounts in the first film, was Sackler's idea for a prequel. Universal's president found the treatment intriguing but rejected it.
Q 11Most of Jaws 2 was shot off Navarre Beach, where the water was warm and deep enough, in which state?
Florida
Florida hosted the production from August until late December 1977, and the unit rented a hundred rooms of a beachfront hotel that doubled as its headquarters.
Q 12How does the shark in Jaws 2 get the burn scars that mark its face for the rest of the film?
A boat explosion
A boat explosion does it: a woman driving a ski boat fires a flare gun at the shark and blows up her own craft. The filmmakers used the scars to give the new shark a more menacing look.
Q 13In the opening scene of Jaws 2, two scuba divers are attacked while photographing which sunken boat?
The Orca
Q 21Roy Scheider agreed to make Jaws 2 to settle his Universal contract after walking off which Vietnam War drama?
The Deer Hunter
The Deer Hunter lost him two weeks before filming over creative differences, and Robert De Niro took the part. Universal forgave the breach in return for one more outing as Brody.
Q 22After Jaws 2, Roy Scheider earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for which musical modelled on Bob Fosse's life?
All That Jazz
All That Jazz cast him as Joe Gideon, a fictionalised version of the film's own director, and brought the second Oscar nomination of his career.
Q 23Murray Hamilton, Amity's mayor in Jaws and Jaws 2, also played the husband of Mrs. Robinson in which film?
The Graduate
The Orca, the boat lost in the first film, lies wrecked on the seabed. The divers' camera keeps firing during the attack and later hands Brody a close-up of the shark.
Q 14What does Chief Brody mistake for a shark when he fires his gun from the beach tower in Jaws 2?
A school of bluefish
A school of bluefish casts the dark shape, and Brody's shots send a crowded beach into panic. Soon afterwards the town council votes him out of his job.
Q 15What are Mike Brody and his teenage friends doing when the shark attacks their group in Jaws 2?
Sailing
Sailing in a group of six boats, against his father's orders, puts Mike in the shark's path. The scenes were a trial to film: the wind kept shifting and blowing the sails the wrong way.
Q 16What is the name of Chief Brody's younger son, who tags along on his brother's forbidden boat trip in Jaws 2?
Sean
Sean, nine years old in the sequel, catches Mike sneaking out and is taken along to keep him quiet. He was played by Marc Gilpin, whose stepsister Peri later starred in Frasier.
Q 17Which piece of Jaws 2 marketing, credited to trailer-maker Andrew Kuehn, became one of the most famous in film history?
Its tagline
Its tagline, which warns that the sea is dangerous once more, has been borrowed and parodied ever since, including in the ads for the 1996 film Flipper.
Q 18Which composer returned to score Jaws 2, using a larger orchestra than he had for the Oscar-winning original?
John Williams
John Williams kept the famous shark motif and wrote a youthful new theme for the teenagers at sea, starting work before the film was finished because the shoot ran late.
Q 19The Jaws 2 shark reused the body mold of the original, which Quint estimates at what length?
25 feet
25 feet is Quint's estimate when the first shark surfaces behind his boat. The sequel's builders kept that body and sculpted a new head with jowls to hide its pinching cheeks.
Q 20Which novelist, author of the bestseller behind the first film, created the characters Jaws 2 is based on?
Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley never returned to the series after the first film, and he came to regret writing the book at all, believing it had fed a widespread public fear of sharks.
The Graduate put him opposite Dustin Hoffman as the wronged husband. Hamilton also faced Paul Newman in The Hustler, as a wealthy billiards player who gambles for high stakes.
Q 24Which actor made his film debut as class clown Doug in Jaws 2 and later starred in John Carpenter's Christine?
Keith Gordon
Keith Gordon went on to direct, with films such as The Chocolate War and A Midnight Clear and episodes of Fargo, Homeland and Better Call Saul.
Q 25Which director, best known then for the film Bug, took over Jaws 2 after his predecessor was fired?
Jeannot Szwarc
Jeannot Szwarc restarted the shoot with the complicated water-skiing scene, which bought the writer time to finish a script that was still being revised.
Q 26The replacement director of Jaws 2 later made which comic-book film starring Helen Slater and Faye Dunaway?
Supergirl
Supergirl arrived in 1984 and Santa Claus: The Movie a year later, big studio fantasies from a director who never attended film school.
Q 27In a deleted scene from Jaws 2, who casts the only vote against removing Brody as police chief?
Larry Vaughn
Larry Vaughn alone sides with Brody when the selectmen vote, a turn from their feud in the first film. The scene was cut because it was thought to slow the pace.
Q 28Which deputy takes over as Amity's police chief after the town council removes Martin Brody in Jaws 2?
Hendricks
Hendricks gets the badge, and actor Jeffrey Kramer got his part back: the deputy had been missing from the script until the new director reinstated him.
Q 29What is the name of the small rocky island where the stranded teenagers end up in Jaws 2?
Cable Junction
Cable Junction was really a floating barge dressed with fibreglass rocks so the shark platform could sit close to it. It once broke loose and began drifting away.
Q 30Which New England island again stood in for Amity in the town scenes of Jaws 2?
Martha's Vineyard
Martha's Vineyard greeted the returning crew with mixed feelings: many islanders enjoyed working as extras, while T-shirts telling the studio to go home appeared on the streets.