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60 free Aries trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 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 01Aries is which sign of the zodiac?
The first
It spans the first 30 degrees of celestial longitude.
Q 02What does the Latin word 'Aries' mean?
Ram
The Greek name was Krios, also meaning ram.
Q 03Under the tropical zodiac, the Sun is in Aries from roughly March 22 to which date?
April 21
That span is exactly the first month of the Solar Hijri calendar used in Iran.
Q 04In tropical astrology, the Sun enters Aries at which astronomical moment?
The March equinox
The equinox drifts about six hours later each year until a leap year resets it.
Q 05Aries belongs to which of the three astrological 'elements'?
Fire
The three fire signs are spaced four signs apart around the wheel.
Q 06Which two other signs share Aries's fire element?
Leo and Sagittarius
The elements rotate fire, earth, air, water through the twelve signs.
Q 07Which planet rules Aries in astrology?
Mars
The Sun, meanwhile, is said to be 'exalted' in Aries.
Q 08Which sign sits directly opposite Aries in the zodiac?
Libra
The First Point of Libra marks the September equinox, exactly 180 degrees from the First Point of Aries.
Q 09Aries is one of the four signs of which 'modality'?
Cardinal
Cardinal signs open each season; the others are Cancer, Libra and Capricorn.
Q 10What colour is traditionally assigned to Aries?
Red
It matches the red planet Mars.
Q 11What is the equivalent of Aries in the Hindu calendar?
Meṣa
The constellation was also known in Hindu astronomy as Aja.
Q 12The first month of Iran's Solar Hijri calendar, which corresponds to Aries, is called what?
Farvardin
It has 31 days, opens with Nowruz at the spring equinox and is called Hamal in Arabic and Wray in Pashto.
Q 13The astrological Aries symbol derives from which creature of Greek myth?
The flying golden ram Chrysomallus
It rescued Phrixus and Helle and later provided the Golden Fleece.
Q 21Which hero later stole the Golden Fleece from King Aeëtes, with the help of the king's daughter Medea?
Jason
King Pelias set the quest to keep Jason from the throne of Iolcus.
Q 22The name Phrixus is said to mean 'curly', referring to what?
The texture of the ram's fleece
The Golden Fleece today appears in the heraldry of western Georgia, including the arms of Kutaisi.
Q 23The constellation Aries lies between which two zodiac constellations?
Pisces and Taurus
It is a mid-sized constellation, ranking 39th of the 88 with an area of 441 square degrees.
Q 14Phrixus and Helle, rescued by the golden ram, were the children of which king?
Athamas
Their mother was the cloud goddess Nephele; their stepmother Ino plotted their deaths.
Q 15How did the jealous stepmother Ino engineer the sacrifice of Phrixus?
She caused a famine and forged an oracle demanding his death
The king was about to sacrifice his son on Mount Laphystium when the ram, sent by Nephele, arrived.
Q 16Helle fell from the ram's back and drowned in a strait that took her name. What is it called today?
The Dardanelles
The ancient name Hellespont honours her.
Q 17The golden ram carried Phrixus safely to which land?
Colchis
It lay on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, in what is now western Georgia.
Q 18According to the Golden Fleece myth, the ram was sired by which god in ram form?
Poseidon
The mother was the nymph Theophane, whom Poseidon turned into a ewe on an island.
Q 19What did Phrixus do with the ram once he reached his refuge on the Black Sea?
Sacrificed it and hung its fleece in a sacred grove
The act returned the ram to its divine sire, and it became the constellation Aries.
Q 20The Golden Fleece hung on an oak in a grove sacred to which god, guarded by a never-sleeping dragon?
Ares
The Aries article notes that beyond the link to Mars there is no connection between the sign and Ares, the god of war.
Q 24How large is the constellation Aries in area?
441 square degrees, 1.1% of the sky
That puts it 39th in size among the 88 modern constellations.
Q 25Before the stars of Aries represented a ram in late Babylonian times, what did they depict?
A farmhand or hired man
The MUL.APIN tablets called it MULLÚ.ḪUN.GÁ, 'The Agrarian Worker'; the ram came with the growing link to Dumuzi the Shepherd.
Q 26The earliest clear references to Aries as a ram come from Babylonian boundary stones of what era?
1350 to 1000 BC
On several of the stones a zodiacal ram figure is distinct from the other characters.
Q 27In ancient Egyptian astronomy, Aries was associated with which ram-headed god?
Amun-Ra
As the location of the vernal equinox it was called the 'Indicator of the Reborn Sun' and 'Lord of the Head'.
Q 28Aries is traditionally depicted as a crouched, wingless ram with its head turned towards what?
Taurus
The Almagest says an earlier astronomer placed Alpha Arietis on the ram's muzzle, though its author listed it as an 'unformed star' over the head.
Q 29Which 2nd-century astronomer listed Aries among his 48 constellations?
Ptolemy
It remains one of the 88 modern constellations recognised by the IAU.
Q 30The First Point of Aries marks the location of what?
The vernal (March) equinox
It is the celestial 'prime meridian' from which right ascension is measured.