Pisces Trivia
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45 free Pisces trivia questions with answers — science & nature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Pisces trivia quiz covers the twelfth and last sign of the zodiac from three sides. The astrology questions ask about the fishes' dates, their classical ruler Jupiter and modern ruler Neptune, mutable water quality, opposite sign Virgo, Venus's exaltation, negative polarity, the two fish swimming opposite ways, and the odd fact that the spring equinox point now sits in Pisces while the sign itself is covered by Aquarius. The astronomy questions turn to the second-dimmest zodiac constellation: Alrescha the knotted cord, Fumalsamakah the fish's mouth, Revati, Van Maanen's white dwarf and its 1917 hint of exoplanets, the Phantom Galaxy M74, a lensing galaxy cluster and the enormous jets of 3C 31. The mythology follows Aphrodite and Eros into the Euphrates to escape Typhon, the egg the fish nudged ashore, Manilius and Hyginus, the Babylonian great swallow, the Egyptian coffin lid of 2300 BC, and the Christian ichthys and Age of Pisces, along with Hevelius's cords, John Hill's forgotten turtle, a German fish tale and a Chinese pig fence. Difficulty runs from easy to expert and is shown on every question, so the quiz suits a Pisces birthday, a pub round or an astronomy night. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries its citation. Try our Zodiac, Astrology and Planets quizzes next.
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Q 01Which snack got its shape because its Swiss creator's wife was a Pisces?
Goldfish crackers
Goldfish crackers were created by Oscar Kambly in Switzerland; Pepperidge Farm's founder Margaret Rudkin found them on a trip there in 1962 and took the recipe home to America.
Q 02Pisces is which sign in the order of the zodiac?
Twelfth
Twelfth: as the last sign on the wheel, Pisces is said by astrologers to have absorbed the lessons of all eleven signs before it, hence its name for empathy.
Q 03Which planet, also the ruler of Sagittarius, was the classical ruler of Pisces?
Jupiter
Jupiter: the ancients had only seven 'planets' for twelve signs, so the Sun and Moon took one sign each and the other five ruled two apiece, Jupiter getting the pair on either side of Saturn's.
Q 04Which planet rules Pisces in modern astrology?
Neptune
Neptune was only discovered in 1846, so Pisces had a different ruler until then; astrologers gave it the sea god's planet afterwards, and many still count the older one as co-ruler.
Q 05Pisces belongs to which element and modality?
Mutable water
Mutable water: the four mutable signs each close out a season, when the weather is on the turn, and astrologers credit them all with a gift for change and adaptation.
Q 06Which sign is opposite Pisces on the zodiac wheel?
Virgo
Virgo: Mercury rules it, so astrologers call that planet in detriment, at a disadvantage, while it crosses Pisces on the far side of the wheel.
Q 07Which of these birthdays falls under Pisces in the tropical zodiac?
February 25
February 25: the Sun is in Pisces from about February 19 to March 20, and the edges shift by a day in some years with the leap-year cycle, so anyone born on a cusp needs the exact year to be sure.
Q 08Which planet, said to be exalted in Pisces, does Dante show veiling the Fishes at dawn in Purgatorio?
Venus
Venus: Dante has just climbed out of Hell, and at dawn on Easter Sunday the planet of love makes the whole east laugh.
Q 09Astrologers class Pisces as a 'negative', or receptive, sign; which of these signs shares that polarity?
Taurus
Taurus: the wheel alternates sign by sign between positive, or yang, and negative, or yin, so every second sign counting from Pisces shares its inward-looking charge.
Q 10For about two thousand years the Sun has stood among the stars of Pisces at the start of which northern season?
Spring
Spring: a slow wobble of our planet's axis carried the March equinox point into Pisces around 68 BC, and astronomers still measure every star's position from that spot.
Q 11Thanks to precession, the astrological sign Pisces now mostly overlies the stars of which constellation?
Aquarius
Aquarius: the signs are pinned to the seasons while the stars drift slowly past them, so after two thousand years each sign has slipped about one constellation out of step.
Q 12In the astrological symbol for Pisces, how are the two fish shown swimming?
In opposite directions
In opposite directions: astrologers read the pose as a mind pulled between fantasy and reality, though in the sky itself the two star-fish swim at right angles.
Q 13Alrescha, the star where the lines tying the two fish of Pisces meet, has an Arabic name meaning what?
The well rope, or cord
Q 21Which space telescope's 2022 infrared view of M74 in Pisces laid bare the dusty filaments of its spiral arms?
Webb
Webb's mid-infrared camera caught the gas and dust threading the arms, and found the core so clear of gas that the star cluster at the galaxy's heart stood out in plain view.
Q 22In 2007 Hubble astronomers reported a ghostly ring of what around the Pisces galaxy cluster CL0024+17?
Dark matter
Dark matter gives off no light, so the team mapped it by the way its gravity bent the images of galaxies far behind; they read the ring as the ripple of two clusters colliding, though later studies have questioned it.
Q 23In one telling of the Pisces myth, the goddess of love and her son became fish to escape which monster?
Typhon
The well rope, or cord: Babylonian astronomers already wrote of a fish cord in this part of the sky, a strong hint that the Greeks inherited the tie from them.
Q 14Beta Piscium's Arabic name means 'mouth of the fish', as does the name of which bright star in the Southern Fish?
Fomalhaut
Fomalhaut comes from fam al-hut, 'the fish's mouth', which is where Ptolemy placed the star; faint Fumalsamakah in Pisces got its name the same way, from the western fish.
Q 15The star name Revati, borne by Zeta Piscium, comes from the lunar mansions of which astronomical tradition?
Indian
Indian: Revati, 'the wealthy', is one of the nakshatras, the star groups the Moon visits in turn each month, and the point of light that carries the name is really five stars bound together.
Q 16Van Maanen's Star in Pisces is the closest known solitary example of what?
A white dwarf
A white dwarf: when its spectrum was recorded in 1917 astronomers logged it as an ordinary star a little warmer than the Sun, and only later recognised the collapsed core of a dead one.
Q 17In the 'zodiac man' of medieval medicine, each sign governs a part of the body; which does Pisces rule?
The feet
The feet: the diagram pinned a sign to each part of the body, and doctors consulted it in almanacs and medical books to choose the day for bloodletting or surgery.
Q 18A 1917 glass plate of Van Maanen's Star held the earliest known evidence of what?
Planetary material beyond the Solar System
Planetary material beyond the Solar System: the star's light showed calcium and iron that should have sunk from sight, the dust of shattered rocky worlds, yet nobody read the clue for almost a century.
Q 19Messier 74, a face-on spiral galaxy in Pisces, goes by which nickname?
The Phantom Galaxy
The Phantom Galaxy: its light is spread so thin that amateurs rate it among the hardest of Messier's objects to spot, yet seen face-on it is a textbook spiral.
Q 20Pierre Méchain, who found M74 in Pisces, later measured a meridian to define which unit?
The metre
The metre: on the Dunkirk to Barcelona survey Méchain was arrested by revolutionaries who took his instruments for weapons, then interned in Spain when war broke out.
Typhon, in Hesiod a monster with a hundred serpent heads, made war on the gods; Pan is said to have escaped him by turning into the goat-fish Capricornus.
Q 24In the Pisces myth as Hyginus tells it, the goddess of love and her son, visiting Syria, leap into which river?
The Euphrates
The Euphrates: the river setting hints that the Greeks took the constellation from the Babylonians.
Q 25Who was the son of the goddess of love who fled with her and shares the constellation Pisces?
Eros (Cupid)
Eros (Cupid): in Ovid's telling mother and son hid among the riverside reeds until a gust of wind in the leaves frightened her into leaping in with him.
Q 26In one Pisces myth, fish rolled a giant egg ashore from a river; which birds then hatched Aphrodite from it?
Doves
Doves: the fish were set among the stars for their trouble, and Hyginus adds that this is why Syrians would eat neither fish nor doves, holding both sacred.
Q 27Which 1960s pop group named an album Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. after the zodiac signs of its four members?
The Monkees
The Monkees: Micky Dolenz was the Pisces and Peter Tork the Aquarius, but Mike Nesmith and Davy Jones were both Capricorns, born on the same day three years apart, so Jones went in by name.
Q 28Which physicist, a Pisces, was born on March 14, 1879, the date now celebrated as Pi Day?
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein lived his last two decades in Princeton, New Jersey, which now folds the two occasions into one yearly Pi Day and Einstein birthday party.
Q 29Which asterism marks the western fish of Pisces, just south of the Great Square of Pegasus?
The Circlet
The Circlet is a loop of faint stars; one now counted in it, TX Piscium, glows deep red because its atmosphere holds more carbon than oxygen.
Q 30Which Swiss psychologist read the Christian era as the Age of Pisces, its two fish standing for Christ and Antichrist?
Carl Jung
Carl Jung set the idea out in Aion (1951): the first fish was Christ, the second his dark opposite, and he expected the age that followed to have to reconcile the two.