Constellations Quiz

English Name	Constellation
The Chained Maiden
The Air Pump
The Bird of Paradise
The Water Bearer
The Eagle
The Altar
The Ram
The Charioteer
The Herdsman
The Engraving Tool
The Giraffe
The Crab
The Hunting Dogs
The Great Dog
The Lesser Dog
The Sea Goat
The Keel
The Seated Queen
The Centaur
The King
The Sea Monster (whale)
The Chameleon
The Compass (Draftsman)
The Dove
Berenice's Hair
Southern Crown
Northern Crown
The Crow
The Cup
Southern Cross

English Name	Constellation
The Swan
The Dolphin
The Swordfish
The Dragon
The Little Horse
The River
The Furnace
The Twins
The Crane
Hercules
The Clock
The Female Water Snake
The Male Water Snake
The Indian
The Lizard
The Lion
The Lesser Lion
The Hare
The Scales
The Wolf
The Lynx
The Lyre
The Table Mountain
The Microscope
The Unicorn
The Fly
The Carpenter's Square
The Octant
The Serpent Bearer
The Hunter

English Name	Constellation
The Peacock
The Winged Horse
The Hero
The Phoenix
The Painter's Easel
The Fishes
The Southern Fish
The Stern
The Compass (Mariner)
The Reticule
The Arrow
The Archer
The Scorpion
The Sculptor
The Shield
The Serpent
The Sextant
The Bull
The Telescope
The Triangle
The Southern Triangle
The Toucan
The Great Bear
The Little Bear
The Sails
The Maiden
The Flying Fish
The Fox

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Constellations Quiz

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	bsd987:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 04:17 GMT		-1 points
	got 2 and woulda done this 100 more times and not gotten more than 3. was the first one though!!!

	JoeGrzzly:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 04:38 GMT		3 points
	Compass is on twice is that on purpose?

	Antithesys:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 05:22 GMT		11 points
	I was going to send this one in as a suggestion but never got around to it. Putting in things like "big dipper" should NOT count, those are asterisms and asterisms sometimes consist of parts of more than one constellation.

	DLJessup:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 07:16 GMT		3 points
	36/88 on first try. It looks like Male Water Snake and Female Water Snake are transposed.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 08:36 GMT		1 point
	I only got 15 but I should have tried harder. When I saw the answers, I kept going "duh."

	PresidentJSC:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 09:18 GMT		1 point
	yeah -us is the masculine and -a is the feminine u need to get the water snakes changed.

	davidr:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 11:50 GMT		-2 points
	@Burton D.: Really? Twelve of these are printed in horoscopes every day (give or take an `-us') and, for one of those, you get `thing' for free by trying to type `thingummy'.

	davidr:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 13:38 GMT		5 points
	Is it just I who keeps reading the Latin name for The Shield as something, er, anatomical?

	rahv:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 14:07 GMT		4 points
	nice quiz, although i would've liked it better to guess all the constellations and not just translate them.

	Jimmy Bojangles:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 15:31 GMT		1 point
	33/88. If I took this a couple years ago I could have gotten more, I was an astronomy nut back then x_x; haha I was struggling with Ophiuchus, I was scrambling the letters... I've never heard of Berenice's Hair though.

	ntnon:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 15:47 GMT		3 points
	@DavidR - No, it's not just you...

	rahv:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 17:37 GMT		2 points
	@jimmy: it's a pretty small constellation with dim stars ... it's hard to see in the night sky even when you know where to look.

	cmkeller:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 22:42 GMT		-4 points
	Since when is the Goat not Capricorn (without the -us) and the Scorpion not Scorpio (without the -us replacing the o)?

	Loud:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 02:25 GMT		3 points
	CMK, those are the names of the constellations. The other names are used in astrology. They got me as well the first time. Live and learn.

	Catherine_F:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 14:59 GMT		0 points
	I'm so glad I got Cassiopeia after trying a million spellings. (I haven't studied Latin.) It's the only constellation I can recognise besides Orion and Ursa Major. I'm also happy that I got 22 out of 88, a nice round quarter :)

	davidr:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 15:30 GMT		4 points
	@Catherine F.: Latin wouldn't have helped with Cassiopeia: she's a character in Greek mythology. :-)

	nhrafan:	Jan 6th, 2009 at 15:02 GMT		2 points
	i just find it really funny that more people have the archer than the arrow, given the spellings

	karinaedge:	Jan 7th, 2009 at 00:24 GMT		1 point
	wow, my name with a "c" instead of a "k" means ship. fantastic.

	davidr:	Jan 7th, 2009 at 10:27 GMT		2 points
	@nhrafan: My guess is that many people find the archer difficult to spell so write something incorrect and then tinker with the spelling until it's accepted. Only if you get the spelling right first time do you get the arrow for free.

	Catherine_F:	Jan 8th, 2009 at 17:59 GMT		2 points
	Davidr: You keep quiet now! They might not have noticed!

	MRS.JONAS:	Jan 16th, 2009 at 01:19 GMT		1 point
	man that was a hard one!

	Odwolda:	Jan 25th, 2009 at 07:02 GMT		3 points
	Earlier today I tried this for the first time and had 10 at most, and now I have all 88 memorized, and not just by the order they come in. Does anyone else use Sporcle to learn stuff they otherwise never would have gotten around to?

	Michael:	Feb 1st, 2009 at 22:38 GMT		1 point
	Would've been better to have the pictures

	sameasiteverwas:	Feb 27th, 2009 at 01:05 GMT		1 point
	oh my that's a bunch

	Kathryn:	Mar 30th, 2009 at 03:25 GMT		1 point
	That's a tough one! I used to know more, but I did better than I thought I would. I kept typing in different spellings of capricorn until I finally gave up. Now I know it for next time! And Ophiuchus (the 13th sign of the zodiac) was also hard to spell but I finally got it! Great quiz! Will come back to this one for practice when I have more time (I'm taking a break at work to do sporcle quizzes).

	mjenks:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 18:46 GMT		1 point
	@ davidr and ntnon: Not too familiar with the origins of body part names as they relate to Latin, I see. Go look up the word for rabbit and see if you can make any connections.

	GeoExpert:	May 23rd, 2009 at 03:24 GMT		-2 points
	I am as good at astronomy as I am in geography, but I don't bother to learn the constellations. They are not interesting to me. Planets, moons, life in space, galaxies, wormholes, etc. are

	GeoExpert:	May 23rd, 2009 at 03:28 GMT		-2 points
	I got Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Leo, Orion, Sagittarius, Cancer, Gemini, and Phoenix. Thats it. I also accidentally got Sagitta while typing in Sagittarius

	Stairway:	Aug 10th, 2009 at 10:55 GMT		2 points
	I had to keep counting colonies from BSG in order to figure out the ones from the English zodiac. And I still missed Tauron, Sagittarion and Libron! Gaah!

	plutogirlgenius:	Sep 9th, 2009 at 02:29 GMT		3 points
	Latin helps so much with this quiz. Half of them were just the Latin equivalent of the English words. This quiz also made me wonder: Why are there some zodiac signs that we say and spell correctly (like Aquarius, Libra, Taurus, etc.) and ones that we don't (like Scorpius, Capricornus, etc.)?

	exackerly:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 12:49 GMT		2 points
	Mensa is just "table", right?

	jcrow09:	Apr 7th, 2010 at 05:21 GMT		0 points
	Chameleon is spelled wrong.

	dancastro:	Jul 4th, 2010 at 16:41 GMT		2 points
	@exackerly: Yes, the translation of the Latin word mensa is just "table". But the astronomer who created the name (Lacaille) in mid 18th century thougth of referring to the Table Mountain in Capetown, South Africa, from where he made his observations.

	aedson3:	Oct 8th, 2010 at 16:32 GMT		1 point
	love the quiz. using it to finally learn the constellations.

	PK9:	Oct 12th, 2010 at 00:06 GMT		1 point
	I forgot "Draco" for the dragon, and I saw "Dragonheart" like two weeks ago. Also I typed in "Fawkes" for the Phoenix. I'm an idiot. =P

	Nordeck52:	Jan 3rd, 2011 at 00:11 GMT		1 point
	Since Serpens is the only constellation to be split into separate sections, why not add Serpens Caput (the snake's head) and Serpens Cauda (the snake's tail) as bonus answers? Either way this quiz is excellent!

	samcash13593:	Jan 6th, 2011 at 16:13 GMT		2 points
	Damn i typed Capricorn so many times i was sure i was spelling it right. I was, Just in the wrong language

	pfrijiritr:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 16:01 GMT		0 points
	86/88. Triangulum australe for some reason doesn't seem to work for me. Somehow I forgot Apus.

	hawaiifiveofan:	Mar 9th, 2011 at 04:00 GMT		1 point
	Got all 88 constellations for this quiz.

	samcash13593:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 19:54 GMT		1 point
	well i feel stupid for missing leo minor that time