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Stuck for a team name? Here are 170 pub quiz team names: puns, clever names, funny ones, names for work and family quizzes, and seasonal names for Christmas and Halloween. Pick one, change it to suit your team, or use them as a starting point for your own.

Quiz puns

The classics. Every quiz has at least one of these, and they still get a smile when the scores are read out.

• Quiz Team Aguilera
• Let's Get Quizzical
• Agatha Quiztie
• Les Quizerables
• Quizteama Aguilera
• The Quizzly Bears
• Universally Challenged
• Quiz Khalifa
• Quizzy Rascal
• The Quizzard of Oz
• Quizzie McQuizface
• Quiz Pro Quo
• Quizness as Usual
• The Quizzlers
• Quizzy Gillespie
• Show Me the Mummy
• Quiz Me Quick
• The Quiztones
• Quiztopher Columbus
• The Spanish Inquizition
• Quizzy Ozbourne
• Quiz Lightyear
• Quizzo the Clown
• The Quizzicals

Clever and nerdy names

For teams who want the quizmaster to know they mean business.

• E = MC Hammered
• The Smarty Pints
• Tequila Mockingbird
• Victorious Secret
• The Know-It-Ales
• Trivia Newton-John
• Einstein's Little Helpers
• The Periodic Table Dancers
• Ctrl Alt Defeat
• The Fact Hunters
• Mind the Gap Year
• Half a Brain Each
• The Brain Drain
• Pythagoras Rules OK
• The Usual Suspects
• Sherlock Homies
• Quantum of Solace Bar
• The Mighty Ducks of Knowledge
• Wiki Leaks
• The Encyclopedia Browns
• Mensa Rejects

Funny team names

Light-hearted names that work in almost any pub, and are safe to read out in front of the whole room.

• Here for the Crisps
• We Thought There'd Be Food
• Never Mind the Answers
• Google Is Banned, Isn't It?
• Second Place Again
• The Best Team Name Ever
• Nobody Told Us It Was Tonight
• Last Orders
• The Designated Thinkers
• Our Phones Are Away, Honest
• Unfinished Pints
• We Came for the Raffle
• The Hopeful Guessers
• Absolutely No Idea
• Pass the Peanuts
• Mostly Here for the Chat
• The Wrong Answers
• Under New Management
• Running Out of Biros
• Ask the Audience

Names for teams who expect to lose

Getting your excuses in early. Perfect for new teams, or the regulars who never quite win.

• Rearranging the Deckchairs
• Low Expectations
• Taking Part Is What Counts
• Quietly Confident (Not Really)
• In It for the Wooden Spoon
• The Participation Trophies
• Here Purely for Moral Support
• Bottom of the League
• We'll Do Better Next Week
• Silent but Wrong
• Glorious Failures
• Better Luck Next Round
• Zero Points to Prove
• Still Working on Round One
• The Long Shots

Team names for work quizzes

Office party, team-building night or a charity quiz between departments: names everyone at work will get.

• Out of Office
• Reply All
• Synergy Overload
• Let's Take This Offline
• Per My Last Email
• Circle Back Later
• The Spreadsheet Wizards
• Blue Sky Thinkers
• Quick Win Merchants
• The Away Day Crew
• Annual Leave Pending
• You're on Mute
• Coffee Machine Gossip
• The Stapler Thieves
• Action Points

Family-friendly team names

For school quizzes, family nights and quizzes with children taking part.

• The Brainy Bunch
• Clever Clogs
• The Know-It-Owls
• Smarty Pants
• The Question Marks
• Mum Knows Best
• Dad Jokes Inc.
• The Fact Finders
• Team Unicorn
• The Pencil Pushers
• Grandma's Gang
• The Little Einsteins
• Quiz Kids
• Dino-Mite
• The Curious Cats

Christmas quiz team names

For the festive quiz, the office Christmas party or a quiz on Boxing Day.

• Quiz Mass Eve
• Jingle Bell Rockers
• Santa's Little Helpers
• Sleigh Queens
• Mince Spies
• Brussels Sprouts Anonymous
• The Elf Assessment
• Yule Never Guess
• Not a Creature Was Stirring
• Deck the Halls with Trivia
• Our Brains Are Stuffed
• Myrrhy Christmas
• Rudolph's Red Faces
• The Cracker Jokes
• All I Want for Christmas Is Points

Halloween quiz team names

For a spooky quiz night in late October.

• Quiz or Treat
• The Ghoul Getters
• Spook Spectacular
• Witch One Is It?
• Fangs for Nothing
• The Pumpkin Spice Squad
• Boo Crew
• Corpse Bride and Grooms
• Creepy Know-Alls
• The Mummy Returns (Our Answers)
• The Witching Hour
• Bats in the Belfry
• Skeleton Crew
• Trick or Treble
• Hocus Pocus Focus

Sport and football team names

For quizzes at the rugby club, the cricket club or the five-a-side team.

• Hat-Trick Heroes
• Extra Time
• VAR Check Pending
• The Offside Rule
• Off the Bench
• Penalty Shootout Specialists
• Fantasy League Losers
• Game, Set and Quiz
• The Nineteenth Hole
• Leg Before Wicket
• Pitch Perfect
• Final Whistle
• The Away Goals
• The Twelfth Men
• Own Goal Specialists

Film, TV and music team names

Names borrowed from the screen and the charts. Handy for a film, TV or music round night.

• Quizzy Does It
• May the Quiz Be With You
• The Fast and the Curious
• Gin and Bear It
• Quiz Wars
• Fifty Shades of Grey Matter
• Indiana Jones and the Last Answer
• Ctrl+Z Factor
• Abba-solutely Clueless
• Bohemian Quizody
• Spice Ghouls
• Dial M for Maybe
• Breaking Brains
• The Quizzard of Ozzy
• Good Will Guessing

Tips for a good team name

• Keep it short. The quizmaster has to read it out and write it on the scoreboard. Two to five words is ideal. On Pub Quiz Generator team names can be up to 24 characters, so very long names get cut off.
• Make it easy to say. If the quizmaster can't pronounce it, you won't hear your score.
• Know your audience. A name that gets a laugh in the pub on a Thursday might not go down well at a school quiz. If children or a mixed crowd are there, keep it clean.
• Tie it to the night. Seasonal names (Christmas, Halloween, the World Cup) and names that poke fun at your own team tend to get the biggest laugh.
• Keep the same name week to week if you're regulars. Quizmasters and other teams will get to know you, and a running joke builds up over the weeks.
• Some quizzes give a prize for the best team name. If yours does, a pun on the quizmaster's name or the pub's name is a safe bet.

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