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302 pub quiz team names

302 team names, grouped by the mood your table is going for. Take any of them — there is nothing to sign up for and nothing to download. If you are the one hosting, they are just as useful for filling in the tables who turn up without a name and hold up the first round deciding on one.

Funny quiz team names

The bread and butter. These work in almost any room and get a laugh when the host reads the scores out, which is the only moment a team name really matters.

  • Quizteam Aguilera
  • Let's Get Quizzical
  • The Quizzly Bears
  • Agatha Quiztie
  • Quiz Pro Quo
  • Tequila Mockingbird
  • Cash Test Dummies
  • Universally Challenged
  • The Scores Are Coming From Inside The House
  • Risky Quizness
  • Beer Pressure
  • The Wrong Answers
  • Here For The Beer
  • Trivia Newton John
  • No Eye Deer
  • The Village Idiots
  • Poor Losers
  • Last Place Is Still A Place
  • Smarty Pints
  • Pint Of No Return
  • Lord Of The Pints
  • Silence Of The Lambrini
  • The Beer Necessities
  • Hoppy Days
  • Ale Mary
  • Absolutely Quizzed
  • Thinking Inside The Box
  • The Brew Crew
  • Pint-Sized Geniuses
  • Quiztopher Walken

Clever and punny team names

For the table that wants the host to pause and go “oh, that's quite good”. Wordplay travels better than a reference nobody in the room gets.

  • E=MC Hammer
  • The Quizzard Of Oz
  • Norfolk And Chance
  • Periodic Table Dancers
  • The Smartinis
  • Les Quizerables
  • Christopher Walk-Ins
  • Miss Quiz-Behaved
  • Quiz Team Names Are Hard
  • The Answer Is Always C
  • Whipped Cream And Other Delights
  • Under New Management
  • Team Name Pending
  • Simply The Best-ish
  • Genghis Khan't
  • Bury Me In A Pub
  • The Know-It-Alls
  • We Googled It Anyway
  • Pun Intended
  • The Oxford Commas
  • Grammar Slammers
  • The Tautology Club
  • Wise Quackers
  • Mensa Rejects
  • Occam's Razors
  • Know Brainers
  • Quizz Aldrin
  • Kant Touch This
  • Descartes Before The Horse
  • The Brains Trust

Music-themed team names

Best deployed on a night with a music round in it — a team name that sets up the round it is about to lose gets more of a reaction.

  • The Rolling Scones
  • Fleetwood Mac And Cheese
  • Dolly Parton's Imagination
  • Simply Red Herrings
  • Blink 182 Questions
  • Guns N' Poses
  • The Beatles Juice
  • Spice Curls
  • Duran Duran Duran
  • Pointless Sisters
  • Sultans Of Swing And A Miss
  • Bon Jovial
  • Snoop Doggy Bag
  • Two Door Cinema Crub
  • Arctic Monkeys Business
  • Quiz Khalifa
  • Quizzy Rascal
  • Florence And The Quiz Machine
  • Status Quiz
  • Bee Gees Knees
  • Mumford And Sums
  • Abba-Solutely Clueless
  • Hall And Notes
  • Take That Answer
  • Kings Of Lemon
  • Coldplay It Cool
  • Rage Against The Quiz Machine
  • Red Hot Chilli Guessers

TV and film team names

The safest well to draw from — almost everyone in a British pub has seen enough telly for these to land without explanation.

  • The Usual Suspects
  • Better Call Paul
  • Game Of Phones
  • Only Fools And Quizzes
  • Peaky Guessers
  • Line Of Doubt
  • The Great British Guess Off
  • Strictly Come Guessing
  • Fawlty Powers
  • Bread And Circuses
  • Gogglebox Of Frogs
  • The Chase Is Off
  • Blackadders
  • I'm A Quizzer Get Me Out Of Here
  • Taskmasters Of None
  • Dumbledore's Army Surplus
  • Planet Of The Grapes
  • Question Time Lords
  • May The Quiz Be With You
  • The Fast And The Curious
  • Pints Of The Caribbean
  • Only Connect Four
  • Mastermind The Gap
  • Breaking Bad Answers
  • Stranger Thinks
  • Deal Or No Idea
  • Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Wine

Football and sport team names

For a sport round, a match day, or a table that will spend the whole night arguing about the offside rule regardless of what the questions are.

  • The Hand Of Rod
  • Lord Of The Wings
  • Sherlock's Homes United
  • Sons Of Pitches
  • Vardy Party
  • The Bald Eagles
  • Kicking And Screaming
  • Offside Rule Deniers
  • Never Won Anything
  • We Only Sing When We're Winning
  • Two Nil Down
  • The Referee's A Blinder
  • Real Ale Madrid
  • Nottingham Forest Gump
  • Aston Villains
  • VAR Too Late
  • Back Of The Net Curtains
  • Snooker Loopy
  • One Hundred And Eightyyy
  • The Grand Slammers
  • Borussia Munchengladbeer
  • Park The Bus
  • Squeaky Bum Time
  • A Game Of Two Halves
  • Early Doors
  • Sweeper Keepers

Work and office team names

For a works do or a team-building night, where the name has to survive being seen by someone in HR the following Monday.

  • The Spreadsheet Bandits
  • Out Of Office
  • Reply All Regrets
  • Quorum Of Chaos
  • Ctrl Alt Defeat
  • The Synergy Squad
  • Circling Back
  • Death By PowerPoint
  • Annual Leave Of Absence
  • Working From Home Team
  • The Meeting That Could Have Been An Email
  • Underpromise Overdeliver
  • Key Performance Indicators
  • Probationary Period
  • The Interns
  • Per My Last Email
  • Sorry, You're On Mute
  • Can Everyone See My Screen?
  • Let's Take This Offline
  • Blue Sky Thinkers
  • Low-Hanging Fruitcakes
  • Thinking Outside The Quiz
  • Deadline Dodgers
  • The Stationery Cupboard
  • No Agenda
  • Mandatory Fun
  • Any Other Business

Christmas quiz team names

For the works do and the December pub quiz. A festive name buys a team goodwill in a room that is already three drinks in. The questions are sorted too: there is a free Christmas quiz round with answers.

  • Sleigh My Name
  • Fleece Navidad
  • The Mistle-Toes
  • Get Your Elf Together
  • Santa's Little Slackers
  • Dashing Through The No's
  • Frosty The Foe-Man
  • Yule Never Guess
  • Three Wise Guys
  • The Turkey Trotters
  • Nightmare Before Quizmas
  • Bad Santas
  • Sprout Of Order
  • All I Want For Christmas Is A Point
  • Mulled Whine
  • Rudolph's Rejects
  • Merry Quizmas
  • Walking In A Winter Blunderland
  • Sleigh Queens
  • Ho Ho Hopeless
  • Christmas Tree-via
  • Pigs In Blankets
  • Snow Place Like Home
  • Oh Deer
  • Jingle Bell Rockers
  • The Brussels Sprouts
  • Mince Spies

For teams who know they will lose

Genuinely underrated. A table that announces low expectations early gets the room on side, and the host will read the name out with more affection than the winners'.

  • Here For The Chips
  • In It For The Bar Tab
  • Quizzly Rubbish
  • The Participation Trophies
  • Wooden Spoon Winners
  • Expectations Managed
  • We Came For The Quiz Not The Answers
  • Statistically Insignificant
  • The Also-Rans
  • Second To Last Is The Goal
  • Two Points And A Packet Of Crisps
  • Consistently Mediocre
  • Sober Enough To Remember
  • The B Team
  • Not Even Our Best Guess
  • Here For The Scampi Fries
  • Just Here To Make Up The Numbers
  • Educated Guessers
  • The Underdogs
  • The Moral Victors
  • Our Phones Are In The Car
  • Well, We Tried
  • Loser Buys The Next Round
  • Bottom Of The Table
  • Guessing Since Round One
  • Lowering The Average
  • Honourable Mentions

Halloween quiz team names

For the October quiz night. Horror puns are forgiving — even a groaner gets a cheer when half the room has turned up in fancy dress. Pair them with the free Halloween quiz round.

  • Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun
  • Quiz Or Treat
  • Hocus Pocus Focus
  • Monster Mashers
  • Fangs For The Answers
  • The Boo Crew
  • Bone Idle
  • Witch Way To The Bar
  • The Mummy's Boys
  • Grave Mistakes
  • The Scream Team
  • Who You Gonna Call?
  • Hat-Trick Or Treat
  • Dead Last
  • The Crypt Keepers
  • Pumpkin Spice Squad
  • Frankenstein's Brains
  • The Witching Hour
  • Zombies Ate Our Brains
  • Creepy Crawlers

Science and geeky team names

For the table with a physicist, a programmer and someone who has read every Wikipedia page on black holes. They land best on a night with a science round in it.

  • Schrödinger's Quizzers
  • The Big Bang Theorists
  • Quantum Of Quizzes
  • Atomic Kittens
  • Covalent Bonds
  • The Nerd Herd
  • Resistance Is Futile
  • Pi Hard
  • The Lab Rats
  • The Mitochondriacs
  • 404 Answer Not Found
  • Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again?
  • There's No Place Like 127.0.0.1
  • Dungeons And Drafts
  • Obi-Wan Kenobeer
  • Isaac Newton's Apples
  • The Particle Accelerators
  • Black Hole Sons
  • Carbon Dating Agency
  • Relatively Clever

Food and drink team names

Always a safe bet in a pub, where half the table is looking at the menu anyway. Good for a night with a food and drink round.

  • Game Of Scones
  • Nacho Average Team
  • Grate Minds Think Alike
  • Lettuce Win
  • Wok This Way
  • Olive The Answers
  • The Scotch Eggheads
  • Bread Pitt
  • Espresso Yourself
  • Just Desserts
  • Spice Spice Baby
  • The Big Cheeses
  • Butter Luck Next Time
  • Pasta La Vista
  • Quiche Me Quick
  • Brie-lliant Minds
  • Batter Late Than Never
  • Soup-er Troupers
  • Scone With The Wind
  • Chip Off The Old Block

Family-friendly and kids' team names

For school quizzes, charity nights and Scout halls — names a nine-year-old will be proud to shout out and a head teacher will be happy to read.

  • The Brainiacs
  • Smarty Pants
  • The Know-It-Owls
  • The Question Marks
  • Brain Freeze
  • The Thinking Caps
  • Puzzled Pandas
  • Clever Clogs
  • Mind Benders
  • The Bright Sparks
  • Super Sleuths
  • The Curious Cats
  • Quiz Wizards
  • Dino-Mite Minds
  • The Brain Train
  • Fact Finders
  • The Answer Pirates
  • Little Geniuses
  • Rocket Scientists
  • Quiz Kids

How to pick one that actually lands

A team name has exactly one moment: when the host reads the scores. Everything about choosing one follows from that.

  • Keep it short. Four or five words. A host reading a fourteen-word name in round three will shorten it, and the shortened version is the one you are stuck with all night.
  • Make it sayable. If it only works written down — a spelling joke, a pun that needs the letters visible — it dies out loud.
  • Pitch it at the room. A reference the whole pub gets beats a sharper one only your table understands.
  • Go topical if you can. Whatever happened that week is the name nobody else will have thought of, and it is the one the host remembers.

Common questions

What makes a good pub quiz team name?

Something the host can read out loud without stumbling. A name only works at the moment scores are announced, so length is the main enemy — four or five words is the ceiling. A pun on a name everyone in the room knows beats a clever reference only your table gets.

Should the name be rude?

Almost never worth it. Most pub quizzes have families or work colleagues in the room, and a host who has to skip your name to avoid reading it out has taken away the only payoff the name has. Cheeky travels; crude usually does not.

Do team names ever win you anything?

Some hosts award a point for the best name, and it costs nothing to run. If you are hosting, it is a good way to get late-arriving tables invested before the first round starts.

How many people should be in a quiz team?

Between four and six is the sweet spot. Fewer and you have gaps in your general knowledge; more and half the table stops paying attention. Many venues cap team size for exactly that reason.

What is a good team name for a work quiz?

One that pokes fun at office life rather than at anyone in it. Jargon is a rich seam — Per My Last Email, Sorry, You're On Mute — because everyone in the room recognises it and nobody is the butt of the joke. Keep it to something you would be happy for your manager to hear read out.

What are good team names for a school or kids' quiz?

Short, punny and easy to shout: The Know-It-Owls, Clever Clogs, Dino-Mite Minds. Children like names that sound like a superhero squad, and a head teacher reading the scores needs nothing to explain.

Can we change our team name halfway through the quiz?

Usually, if you ask the host before the scores are read out. Some tables do it deliberately and change the name to a joke about their position after each round — it only works if the host is keeping score on paper or on a screen they can edit.

Now you need the questions

There are free quiz rounds with answers covering general knowledge, football, music, film and more, a guide to hosting a pub quiz if you are running the night, and the QuizCast app if you would rather put the whole thing on a TV and let people answer from their phones.