Best Pub Quiz Team Names

Mitch Fenton

Mitch Fenton

— 4 min read
Best Pub Quiz Team Names

Do your teams have the best team names? A great one gets a laugh every single time the quiz master reads the scores out, and that's half the fun of a quiz night.

We've pulled together over 200 of the best pub quiz team names we've heard, been sent, or scribbled on an answer sheet ourselves. Steal one, tweak one, or use them as a starting point for something filthier that we can't print.

The all-time classics

If you only remember one list, make it this one. These are the names that turn up in pubs from Cornwall to Carlisle, and they still land.

  • The Quizzly Bears
  • Quizteama Aguilera
  • Let's Get Quizzical
  • Quiz Pro Quo
  • Agatha Quiztie
  • Norfolk and Chance
  • The Quizzard of Oz
  • Tequila Mockingbird
  • Sherlock Homies
  • E=MC Hammer
  • Universally Challenged
  • The Foxymorons
  • Quizzy Rascal
  • Trivia Newton John
  • Risky Quizness
  • Smarty Pints
  • The Quizzengers
  • Quizzimodo

Quiz and trivia puns

Names about the quiz itself. Self-aware, slightly smug, always popular.

  • The Know-It-Ales
  • Trivial Pursuit of Happiness
  • Google Was Down
  • We Thought This Was Speed Dating
  • No Eye Deer
  • I Thought This Was Bingo
  • The Wikipedians
  • Blood, Sweat and Beers
  • Quizzical Thinking
  • The Educated Guessers
  • Second Place Is First Loser
  • Team Name Pending
  • Sorry We're Late
  • Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
  • The Answer Smiths
  • Read the Question
  • Ask the Audience
  • Phone a Friend

Music team names

Perfect if your team carries the music round, and unbearable if they don't.

  • The Rolling Scones
  • Fleetwood Macaroni
  • Spice Ghouls
  • Simply Red Herrings
  • Bon Jov-ial
  • The Quizzy Osbournes
  • Sultans of Swig
  • Arctic Monkey Nuts
  • Take Quiz
  • Coldplaydough
  • Nirvanarama
  • Hall and Notes
  • Wu-Tang Quiz Clan
  • The Rolling Bones
  • Guns N' Poses
  • Dua Lipa Reading
  • Snoop Doggy Dogs
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Pub Quiz Club

TV and film

  • Game of Phones
  • Better Call Salt
  • Breaking Bard
  • Peaky Quizzers
  • Quiz Impossible
  • The Big Bang Theorists
  • Stranger Quizzes
  • The Great British Guess Off
  • Line of Booty
  • Doctor Whoops
  • Gogglebox Clever
  • Bake Off Your Face
  • Blackadder Snakes
  • Fawlty Powers
  • Two Pints and a Packet of Crisps
  • The Last Ledi
  • Only Fools and Answers
  • Grange Hillbillies

Celebrity name puns

The formula never fails: take a famous name, break it in half, put a pub in the middle.

  • John Travoltage
  • Cilla Blackout
  • Alan Partridge Family
  • Judi Dench Press
  • Nicolas Cageybirds
  • Bradley Walsh and Turn
  • Sean Bean There Done That
  • Idris Elbow
  • Meryl Streep Show
  • Danny Dyer Straits
  • Gordon Ramsay Street
  • Phillip Schofield of Dreams
  • Tom Hanky Panky
  • Russell Sprout
  • Adele Boys
  • David Attenborough Bunch
  • Ant and Deception
  • Keanu Reeves of Grass

Sport

  • The Offside Rulers
  • Quiz Klopp
  • The Special Ones
  • Fergie Time
  • Bench Warmers
  • Tyson Furious
  • Lewis Hamil-tonic
  • Score Draw
  • Own Goals
  • The Substitutes
  • Dartboard Dynamos
  • Snooker Loopy
  • Rugby Tackled
  • Golf Clap
  • Extra Time Heroes
  • Penalty Shootout Specialists
  • Red Card Rebels
  • Multiple Scoregasms

Science, maths and nature

  • Periodic Table Dancers
  • Natural Selectors
  • Sodium Funny
  • Quantum Leapers
  • Pi Hard
  • The Sine of the Times
  • Acute Angles
  • Obtuse Geese
  • Photosynthesisters
  • Gravitational Poll
  • The Higgs Bosons
  • Prime Numbers
  • Darwin's Finches
  • Schrodinger's Cats
  • Never Mind the Bunsens
  • Algebros
  • Statistically Significant
  • The Control Group

History and geography

  • The Vikings Are Coming
  • Tudor Roses
  • Genghis Khan't
  • Napoleon Blownaparte
  • Tutankhamen and Go
  • The Magna Cartels
  • Rome Alone
  • Continental Drifters
  • Capital Offenders
  • The Ordnance Surveyors
  • Lost in Latitude
  • Churchill's Bulldogs
  • Hadrian's Wallies
  • Cold War Kids
  • Bermuda Triangles
  • Compass Points
  • The Domesday Bookworms
  • Four Corners of the Bar

Food and drink

  • Nacho Average Team
  • Lettuce Win
  • Curry On Regardless
  • Chip Off the Old Block
  • Bready or Not
  • Cheesy Quizzers
  • The Gravy Train
  • Sunday Roasters
  • Pie Hard with a Vengeance
  • Fish and Quiz
  • Sausage Roll Models
  • Pizza the Action
  • Toast of the Town
  • Kebab Shop Boys
  • Full English
  • The Yorkshire Puddings
  • Custard's Last Stand
  • Gravy Boat Race

Pub and beer themed

  • Beer Pressure
  • Ale of a Time
  • The Last Orders
  • Hop to It
  • The Regulars
  • Lager Than Life
  • Pint Sized Brains
  • Bar Stool Prophets
  • The Bitter End
  • Cheers to That
  • Stout Hearted
  • Pub Crawl Champions
  • Round Two
  • Tap Room Titans
  • Session Ale Society
  • One More for the Road
  • The Snug Squad
  • Real Ale Rebels

For teams who never win

Lean into it. The booby prize is a prize too.

  • Here for the Beer
  • We Just Came for the Chips
  • Participation Trophy
  • Last Place Guarantee
  • The Wooden Spooners
  • Consistently Mediocre
  • Aiming for Fifth
  • E for Effort
  • Better Luck Next Week
  • The Also-Rans
  • Low Expectations
  • We Googled Nothing, Honest
  • Rock Bottom
  • Wrong Answers Only
  • Not Last, Hopefully
  • The Underachievers
  • Dunning-Kruger Effect
  • Managing Expectations

Tech, AI and internet

  • Ctrl Alt Defeat
  • The Algorithms
  • Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again
  • 404 Team Not Found
  • ChatGPT Said So
  • The Wi-Fighters
  • Byte Me
  • Cache Money
  • Beta Testers
  • The Cloud Nine
  • Error 401 Unauthorised
  • Blue Screen of Death
  • Loading...
  • Two Bits and a Nibble
  • Firewall Flowers
  • Artificial Unintelligence
  • The Search History
  • Airplane Mode

Cheeky but still pub-safe

Every quiz has one table pushing their luck. These are the ones you can still read out loud without the landlord glaring at you.

  • Cunning Linguists
  • Master Debaters
  • Weapons of Mass Deduction
  • Norfolk 'n' Good
  • The Village Idiots
  • Menace to Sobriety
  • Let's Get Ready to Stumble
  • Titanic Swim Team
  • I Am Smarticus
  • Under the Affluence
  • Sofa King Clever
  • Brew-tiful Minds
  • Beauty and the Beers
  • Awkward Turtles
  • Team Team
  • The Table by the Toilets
  • My Other Team Is Cleverer
  • Quizness Casual

How to pick a team name that actually lands

A few things we've noticed over the years:

  • Say it out loud first. The quiz master has to read it to a room. If it doesn't work spoken, it doesn't work.
  • Keep it short. Long names get shortened by everyone anyway, usually badly.
  • Make it local if you can. A name that nods to your pub, your street or your town gets a bigger laugh than a generic pun.
  • Don't be the team nobody wants to sit near. Cheeky is funny. Genuinely offensive just makes the room go quiet.
  • Stick with it. If you're running a league, the same name every week is how teams build a reputation, and a rivalry.

Send us yours

If you've got the Foxymorons, the Quizzimodos or even the Cunning Linguists on your team sheet, we'd love to post the great ones on the PubQuizzes socials.

As a member you can upload your pub name, location, team names and scores. We'll celebrate your winners and top scores on our socials, and you can track your teams over time and run a league. Once teams are in a league, it really does bring them back week after week.

Offer a prize for the best overall points across the month or the year and watch what happens.

And don't forget to review your quiz, and let us know if you've got ideas or feedback. We want to be the interactive quiz masters' home.

Mitch and Harry

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