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Quiz team name generator

Someone hands your table a pen, asks for a team name, and everyone goes quiet. Pick a theme and you get six names at a time. Don't like them? Ask for more. Found the one that made the table laugh? Copy it and write it down before anyone changes their mind.

Pick a theme

  • Quizteama Aguilera
  • Little Women, Big Brains
  • Ferris Bueller's Quiz Off
  • Newton's Apples
  • Brew Crew
  • Bingeworthy Popcorn Eaters

What makes a good pub quiz team name

The quizmaster is going to read it out loud, probably more than once, usually while announcing that you came fourth. So it should sound good spoken. A pun everyone gets beats an in-joke only your table understands, and a groan from the room counts as a win.

Keep it short enough to fit at the top of an answer sheet, and clean enough that the table of grandparents next to you can laugh along. If your team plays every week, pick a theme and change the name each time. Regulars love it, and it gives you something to do while the picture round gets handed out.

240 funny trivia team names, sorted by theme

Steal one as it is, bend one to fit your group, or use the list to settle the argument about whose idea was best. They all work for a pub quiz, a work social or a trivia night at school.

Quiz puns

The classics. Every quiz night has at least one of these on the scoreboard, and for good reason: the quizmaster gets to read them out loud.

  • Quizteama Aguilera
  • Let's Get Quizzical
  • Quiz Khalifa
  • The Quizzly Bears
  • Agatha Quiztie
  • Les Quizerables
  • Universally Challenged
  • Quiz in Boots
  • The Quizzard of Oz
  • Trivia Newton-John
  • Trivial Pursuers
  • Quizzy Rascals
  • Answer Me This
  • Quiztopher Columbus
  • Quizzy Pop
  • Hey, Quiz Me Maybe
  • The Quiz Kids Are Alright
  • Quizney Channel
  • Quiz Akabusi
  • The Quizzly Veterans

Pub and drinks

For the team that came for the quiz and stayed for the second round at the bar. Mostly about beer, a few about gin, all fine to say in front of the landlord.

  • Smarty Pints
  • Tequila Mockingbird
  • Whisky Business
  • Gin and Bear It
  • Ale and Hearty
  • Brew Crew
  • The Hopportunists
  • Pint Sized Geniuses
  • Beer Pressure
  • Lager Than Life
  • Mead the Parents
  • Stout of Our Depth
  • Cider Effects
  • Wine Not
  • Last Orders Please
  • Prosecco Paddlers
  • Merlot Rangers
  • The Ale Mary Pass
  • Hops and Dreams
  • Brewed Awakening

Music

Band puns are the easiest way to sound like you know the music round. Whether you actually do is between you and the answer sheet.

  • Quizzy Stardust
  • Abba Cadabra
  • Guns N' Rosé
  • Spice Squirrels
  • The Rolling Scones
  • Arctic Monkeying Around
  • Florence and the Quizzine
  • Fleetwood Smack
  • The Answer Is Blowin' in the Wind
  • Bohemian Rhapsquad
  • Bach to the Future
  • Mozart of the Matter
  • The Bee Quiz
  • Dire Straits A Students
  • Queen of the Quiz Age
  • The Velvet Undergrads
  • Simply Read
  • Pink Freud
  • Coldplayers
  • Def Lettuce

Film and TV

If your table quotes films more than it answers questions, start here. Bonus points if the quizmaster gets the reference.

  • The Fast and the Curious
  • Pirates of the Quizibbean
  • Ctrl Alt Elite
  • The Lord of the Pings
  • Game of Phones
  • Quiz Wars
  • The Brainy Bunch
  • Breaking Answers
  • Gone with the Quiz
  • Silence of the Brains
  • Back to the Quizzer
  • The Good, the Bad and the Clueless
  • Saving Private Brain
  • The Answer Strikes Back
  • Mission Quizpossible
  • Raiders of the Lost Quiz
  • Honey, I Shrunk the Score
  • Ferris Bueller's Quiz Off
  • Dial M for Marks
  • No Country for Old Answers

Sport

For the competitive table. These work best when you are winning, and are even funnier when you are not.

  • Quizzy Rovers
  • Real Ale Madrid
  • Norwich Pity
  • Inter Quizzan
  • Borussia Teammates
  • Athletico Thinking
  • The Offside Rule
  • Net Profits
  • Hat Trick or Treat
  • Extra Time Lords
  • Penalty Kings
  • Bend It Like Bookworms
  • Sporting Clueless
  • Dynamo Thinkers
  • Grand Slam Dunkers
  • Tour de Farce
  • Full Time Thinkers
  • Hole in Won
  • Tee Total
  • The Mighty Ducklings

Science and geeks

Nerdy names for the table that wants the science round to come up first. Some of these need a second to land. That is part of the fun.

  • Einstein's Cousins
  • Periodic Table Dancers
  • The Mitochondria Powerhouse
  • Schrodinger's Quiz Team
  • Big Bang Thinkers
  • Quantum of Quiz
  • Newton's Apples
  • The Pi Hards
  • Darwin's Finches
  • Sodium Chloride Quiz Squad
  • The Data Crunchers
  • We Have the Formula
  • Ctrl Alt Defeat
  • 404 Answer Not Found
  • The Nerd Herd
  • Brainiacs
  • Atomic Kittens of Knowledge
  • Remember the Neutrinos
  • The Lab Coats
  • Cerebral Cortex Crew

History

Kings, queens and emperors from a very long time ago, all pressed into service for one evening of general knowledge.

  • Henry the Ate
  • Genghis Can
  • The Tudor Tutors
  • Napoleon Blownapart
  • Vlad the Inhaler
  • Ivan the Terribly Smart
  • Tutankhamun and Tonic
  • The Spanish Inquizition
  • Alexander the Grate
  • Julius Teaser
  • Attila the Fun
  • Charles the Smart
  • The Magna Cartographers
  • Joan of Quiz
  • Bayeux Tapestry Weavers
  • The Roman Numerals
  • Victorian Values
  • Cleopatra's Needles
  • The Dark Ages Revisited
  • Hadrian's Wallflowers

Books

Literary puns for book club teams, English teachers and anyone who reads the questions twice before answering.

  • Lord of the Rings Binders
  • Of Mice and Menus
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Answers
  • Pride and Prejudiz
  • Harry Potter and the Half Pint Prince
  • The Great Quizby
  • Moby Quiz
  • War and Peas
  • Fifty Shades of Grey Matter
  • The Catcher in the Ryebread
  • Sense and Sensibility Checks
  • The Hitchhikers
  • Wuthering Brights
  • Brave New Wordsmiths
  • Little Women, Big Brains
  • Animal Farmers
  • The Grapes of Rasp
  • To Quiz a Mockingbird
  • Don Quizote
  • Treasure Island Hoppers

Food

Names for the table that ordered the sharing platter before the first round started.

  • Sweet Dreams Are Made of Cheese
  • Quiche Me Quick
  • The Big Cheeses
  • Lettuce Win
  • Pasta La Vista
  • Bread Pitt Stops
  • Taco Bout Smart
  • Hot Cross Puns
  • Cereal Thinkers
  • We Donut Know
  • The Smart Cookies
  • Nacho Average Team
  • Thai Breakers
  • Mashed Potato Masters
  • Sausage Roll Call
  • Scone With the Wind
  • Cheese Louise
  • Wok This Way
  • Kale Mary
  • Spice Spice Baby

Office teams

For the work social. Safe to put on a shared slide, gently rude about meetings, and nobody from HR needs to get involved.

  • This Meeting Could Have Been a Quiz
  • Reply All
  • Out of Office
  • Synergy Seekers
  • The Spreadsheet Wizards
  • Circle Back Crew
  • Per My Last Email
  • Low Hanging Fruit
  • The Away Day Team
  • Ctrl Z Squad
  • Blue Sky Thinkers
  • Quarterly Quizzers
  • The Stand Up Meeting
  • Kitchen Fridge Bandits
  • Mute Yourself
  • You're on Mute
  • The Deadline Dodgers
  • Coffee Break Champions
  • Paper Jam Session
  • The Printer Whisperers

Family friendly

For school fundraisers, scout huts and any quiz where the youngest player is under ten. Silly, sweet and fine to shout across a hall.

  • The Know It Owls
  • Clever Clogs
  • The Brain Cells
  • Smarty Pants
  • Mind the Gap Year
  • The Thinking Caps
  • Wise Guys and Gals
  • Duck Duck Quiz
  • The Curious Cats
  • Brainstormers
  • Puzzle Pals
  • The Question Marks
  • Wizards of Quiz
  • The Bright Sparks
  • Fact Finders
  • The Penguins of Knowledge
  • Grey Matter Gang
  • The Head Scratchers
  • Team Name Pending
  • The Wrong Answers

Gloriously bad

Expectations managed. For the team that is here for the company and would like the scoreboard to know it.

  • Last Place Again
  • We Thought There Would Be Snacks
  • Here for the Chips
  • Quizzy Does It
  • Google Is Not an Option
  • Totally Not Cheating
  • The Guesswork Gang
  • Almost Correct
  • Wrong Again
  • The Participation Trophies
  • Better Luck Next Week
  • Second to Last
  • We Peaked at Round One
  • Not Last Hopefully
  • Plan B
  • Close But No Cigar
  • The Underachievers
  • Mostly Harmless
  • Wild Guess Society
  • The Honest Mistakes

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