Aries Trivia
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56 free Aries trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Aries trivia quiz covers all three faces of the Ram. First the zodiac sign: its dates, the March equinox, fire and cardinal qualities, Mars and Libra, the colour red, its Hindu and Persian equivalents and the Sun's exaltation. Then the myth: Chrysomallus the flying golden ram, Phrixus and Helle, Ino's forged oracle, the Hellespont, Colchis, Poseidon and Theophane, the fleece in the grove of Ares and Jason's theft of it. Finally the constellation: its place between Pisces and Taurus, the Babylonian farmhand who became a ram, Amun-Ra, Ptolemy and Hipparchus, the First Point of Aries and its drift into Pisces, Hamal, Sheratan and Mesarthim, Teegarden's Star, the runaway 53 Arietis, SX Arietis, the Daytime Arietids found at Jodrell Bank, and Aries in Chinese, Hindu and Marshallese skies. A few pop-culture Aries close it out: Gorillaz, Luis Miguel and Austin Aries. Questions run from easy to expert with the difficulty shown on each one, and every answer was checked against a reference page and carries its citation. If you enjoy it, try our Zodiac and Greek Mythology quizzes next.
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Q 01The name Aries is the word for 'ram' in which language?
Latin
Latin: the Romans translated the Greek sky figures into their own tongue and their names stuck, so the sign still goes by what was simply their everyday word for a ram.
Q 02Which of these days always falls during Aries season?
April Fools' Day
April Fools' Day always lands inside the sign, which runs until about April 19. One much-debated theory says the first April fools were people still keeping New Year in spring.
Q 03In tropical astrology, the Sun enters Aries at which astronomical moment?
The March equinox
The March equinox, when day and night level out, also opened the year in several ancient calendars, and astrologers still count the zodiac from that moment.
Q 04Aries belongs to which of the four astrological elements?
Fire
Fire, which astrologers read as heat, drive and restless energy; it is where the sign gets its reputation as the zodiac's impatient self-starter.
Q 05Which two other signs share Aries's element?
Leo and Sagittarius
Leo and Sagittarius. The four elements repeat in a fixed order around the zodiac, so signs that share one always sit four places apart.
Q 06Which planet rules Aries in astrology?
Mars
Mars. Named for the Roman god of war, the planet lends the sign its combative streak: astrologers cast Aries as quick to act and quick to anger.
Q 07Which sign sits directly opposite Aries in the zodiac?
Libra
Libra sits six signs on, directly across the wheel. Greek astronomers saw its stars as the claws of the scorpion next door; the scales caught on under the Romans.
Q 08Aries is one of the four signs of which 'modality'?
Cardinal
Cardinal comes from a Roman word for a hinge: astrologers cast these four signs as the zodiac's initiators, the ones that want action and set things moving.
Q 09What colour is traditionally assigned to Aries?
Red
Red. Astrologers match the colour to the sign's temperament, which the old handbooks class as choleric: bold, impatient and quick to anger.
Q 10Which Thai festival marks the Sun entering the Hindu zodiac's Aries?
Songkran
Songkran. The Sun's mid-April passage into Mesha, the Hindu zodiac's name for Aries, opens the traditional Thai New Year, which people welcome by pouring water for cleansing and good fortune.
Q 11Which festival opens Iran's calendar year at the moment the Sun enters Aries?
Nowruz
Nowruz, the Persian New Year, opens the month of Farvardin at an exact astronomical instant, so families gather round the haft-sin table and count down to whatever hour it falls.
Q 12Which band of Greek heroes sailed to fetch the golden fleece of the ram that became Aries?
The Argonauts
The Argonauts took their name from their ship, the Argo, which won a place in the sky too: a constellation so sprawling that astronomers later broke it into three.
Q 13Who plotted to kill Phrixus before the golden ram rescued him?
His stepmother
His stepmother, Ino, in the usual telling: she resented her husband's children by his first wife, and her plot so nearly worked that the king had Phrixus at the altar when the ram arrived.
Q 21The constellation Aries lies between which two zodiac constellations?
Pisces and Taurus
Pisces and Taurus flank it to west and east. The constellations keep the same order as the signs, so each spring the Sun slides out of the fishes, through the ram and on into the bull.
Q 22Stargazers find faint Aries by looking between the Great Square of Pegasus and which bright star cluster to its east?
The Pleiades
The Pleiades. Aries needs the signposts: for the sign that leads the zodiac it is a dim one, with only a short crooked line of three stars that most people can pick out.
Q 23Which ancient stargazers listed the stars of Aries as 'the Hired Man' on their clay tablets?
The Babylonians
Q 14What did Ino use to trick King Athamas into agreeing to sacrifice his son Phrixus?
A faked oracle
A faked oracle. Ino first spoiled the seed corn so the harvest failed, then bribed the king's messengers to say Delphi demanded the boy's death to end the famine.
Q 15The strait where Helle fell from the golden ram and drowned was named the Hellespont; what is it called today?
The Dardanelles
The Dardanelles. Herodotus says the Persian king Xerxes later had this same strait given 300 lashes after a storm wrecked the bridges he had built across it.
Q 16The golden ram carried Phrixus safely to which land?
Colchis
Colchis lay at the far end of the Black Sea, in what is now Georgia; its king kept the ram's fleece, and the hero who later came for it had to cross that whole sea.
Q 17In later tellings, which sea god took a ram's shape to father the golden ram of the Aries myth?
Poseidon
Poseidon. In Hyginus's version he hid the maiden Theophane from her suitors by turning her into a ewe and himself into a ram, and their lamb was born with a golden fleece.
Q 18What did Phrixus do with the golden ram once it had carried him to safety?
Sacrificed it
Sacrificed it: in the usual telling Phrixus offered the ram to Zeus in thanks and gave its fleece to the local king, who nailed it to an oak.
Q 19The Golden Fleece hung on an oak in a grove sacred to which god, guarded by a never-sleeping dragon?
Ares
Ares. Despite the look-alike names, the sign's name is just an old word for a ram and has nothing to do with the war god's.
Q 20Which hero later stole the Golden Fleece from King Aeëtes, with the help of the king's daughter Medea?
Jason
Jason was owed a throne: the usurper Pelias promised to hand back the kingdom of Iolcus if he came home with the fleece.
The Babylonians. 'Hired Man' meant a farm labourer of the kind taken on at harvest; scholars still argue over when the ram took his place, or whether it was there all along.
Q 24Until Pluto was discovered, astrologers gave Aries and which other sign the same ruling planet?
Scorpio
Scorpio. The ancients had only seven 'planets' to share among twelve signs, so five of them ruled two apiece; Pluto's discovery gave astrologers a spare to hand the scorpion.
Q 25Classical writers linked the constellation Aries to which Egyptian god, often shown with a ram's horns?
Amun-Ra
Amun-Ra, king of the Egyptian gods. Greeks and Romans merged him with their own sky father, so old star books also call the constellation 'Jupiter Ammon'.
Q 26Old star maps show Aries as a crouching, wingless ram looking back towards what?
Taurus
Taurus. Star atlases long drew the ram lying down and glancing back over its shoulder, as if astonished to see the bull rising backwards behind it.
Q 27Which 2nd-century astronomer listed Aries among his 48 constellations?
Ptolemy
Ptolemy, working in Alexandria around AD 150, fixed the sky's cast of characters so firmly that mapmakers were still copying his figures more than a thousand years later.
Q 28The First Point of Aries is the zero mark for which sky coordinate, the stars' version of longitude?
Right ascension
Right ascension is counted eastward from that point in hours, not degrees: the sky turns through 24 of them a day, so a star's position can be read off a clock.
Q 29Despite its name, the First Point of Aries left Aries long ago; which constellation hosts it until around AD 2600?
Pisces
Pisces. The point has slipped about 30 degrees west since Greek astronomers pinned it down over 2,000 years ago, yet everyone still calls it by its old address.
Q 30Who defined the First Point of Aries in 130 BC as a point south of Gamma Arietis?
Hipparchus
Hipparchus also noticed the point would not stay put: his star positions disagreed with older Greek records, his first clue to the slow drift that has since carried it out of Aries.