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50 free Pisces trivia questions with answers — science & nature quiz, new questions added Aug 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 01What does the Latin name Pisces mean?
Fishes
The Greeks called it Ikhthyes, and both names are plural: there are two fish.
Q 02Pisces is which sign in the order of the zodiac?
Twelfth
It spans 330 to 360 degrees, ending at the spring equinox point where Aries begins.
Q 03What was the classical ruling planet of Pisces?
Jupiter
Modern astrologers hand the job to Neptune, discovered in 1846.
Q 04Which planet rules Pisces in modern astrology?
Neptune
The sea god's planet was an obvious fit for the sign of the fishes once it was discovered.
Q 05Pisces belongs to which element and modality?
Mutable water
Cancer is the cardinal water sign and Scorpio the fixed one.
Q 06Which sign is opposite Pisces on the zodiac wheel?
Virgo
Both are mutable; the maiden and the fishes close out summer and winter respectively.
Q 07Under the tropical zodiac the Sun is in Pisces between roughly which dates?
February 20 to March 21
The sign ends at the March equinox, the First Point of Aries.
Q 08Which planet is said to be exalted in Pisces?
Venus
Dante uses Venus exalted in Pisces as an image of divine love at the start of Purgatorio.
Q 09Pisces belongs to which polarity group?
Negative (passive)
The even-numbered earth and water signs are the negative or receptive ones.
Q 10Which ecliptic marker has lain within the constellation Pisces for the past two millennia?
The First Point of Aries (spring equinox)
Precession has carried it out of Aries and it is drifting on toward Aquarius.
Q 11Thanks to precession, the sign Pisces (330° to 0°) mostly covers which constellation?
Aquarius
Signs and constellations parted company about two thousand years ago because of Earth's wobble.
Q 12How are the two fish usually shown swimming, and what is it said to represent?
In opposite directions, the Piscean duality
They are tied together by a cord, typically at the mouths or tails.
Q 13What is the meaning of Alrescha, the name of Alpha Piscium?
The well rope, or cord
Ptolemy placed it where the cords joining the two fish are knotted together.
Q 21Who discovered M74 in 1780 and passed it on to Charles Messier?
Pierre Méchain
The James Webb Space Telescope imaged it in July 2022.
Q 22Roughly how many stars does M74 contain?
About 100 billion
That is comparable to the Milky Way, and its spiral arms are lit by regions of new star formation.
Q 23The galaxy cluster CL0024+17 in Pisces is famous for doing what to the galaxy behind it?
Gravitationally lensing it into arcs
The cluster is 3.6 billion light-years away, about half as far as the background galaxy it bends.
Q 14What does the name of Beta Piscium, Fumalsamakah, mean?
Mouth of the fish
It is a hot B-type star nearly 500 light-years away.
Q 15How does Pisces rank for brightness among the zodiac constellations?
Second dimmest
Only two of its stars are brighter than magnitude 4, so it vanishes near any big city.
Q 16Which star in Pisces bears the name Revati, meaning 'rich', and is a quintuple system?
Zeta Piscium
Revati is also the last of the 27 Hindu lunar mansions.
Q 17Van Maanen's Star in Pisces is the closest known solitary example of what?
A white dwarf
It packs about two-thirds of the Sun's mass into one percent of its radius.
Q 18How far away is Van Maanen's Star?
14.1 light-years
Only Sirius B and Procyon B are closer white dwarfs, and both have bright companions.
Q 19A 1917 photographic plate of Van Maanen's Star turned out to hold the earliest known evidence of what?
Planetary material beyond the Solar System
Calcium absorption lines showed rocky debris polluting the star's atmosphere, spotted only in 2016.
Q 20Messier 74 in Pisces is nicknamed what, because it is so hard for amateurs to see?
The Phantom Galaxy
Its low surface brightness makes it the toughest Messier object, yet its face-on arms make it a textbook grand-design spiral.
Q 24The radio galaxy 3C 31 in Pisces has jets that extend how far?
Several million light-years
They are among the largest single objects in the universe, powered by the black hole at its centre.
Q 25In the Greek myth, the goddess of love and her son turned into fish to escape which monster?
Typhon
Pan escaped the same monster by turning into a goat-fish, which became Capricornus.
Q 26Per Hyginus, into which river did the goddess of love and her son leap to flee the monster?
The Euphrates
They were visiting Syria at the time; the Roman version has them carried off on the backs of two fish.
Q 27Who was the son of the goddess of love who fled with her and shares the constellation?
Eros (Cupid)
The pair were tied together with a cord so they would not lose each other in the water.
Q 28After fish and doves hatched her from an egg in one myth, what title was Aphrodite given?
The Syrian Goddess
She rewarded the fish by putting them in the sky, and was afterwards called the Syrian Goddess.
Q 29Because of these myths, Pisces was also known by which Latin nickname?
Venus et Cupido
Other titles included Venus Syria cum Cupidine, Dione and Veneris Mater.
Q 30Which Latin poet's Astronomica says 'Venus ow'd her safety to their Shape' about the constellation?
Manilius
His five-volume poem is the fullest surviving Roman astrology text.