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Pub quiz team name generator

Generate a pub quiz team name in one tap, or browse over a hundred by category: puns, honest self-assessment, food and drink, music and film. Free, no sign-up.

What makes a team name work

It is read out loud, once, to a room that is half listening. That is the only test it has to pass.

Which rules out most of what people write down. A name that needs explaining does not work. A name that is funny to read and not to hear does not work. A name six words long has lost the room by word four.

The ones that land are short, say out loud cleanly, and do one of three things: pun on something everyone knows, describe the team honestly, or set up a joke the host has to deliver. The third kind is the best, because it makes the host part of it.

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Every name, by category

The full list the generator draws from. Free to use, and no attribution needed.

Puns on famous names

The biggest category and the most reliable. A name everybody knows, bent around a quiz word.

  • Quizteama Aguilera
  • Quizzee Rascal
  • Agatha Quiztie
  • Les Quizerables
  • Menage a Trivia
  • Trivia Newton John
  • Tequila Mockingbird
  • Norfolk and Chance
  • Universally Challenged
  • Sir Quizalot
  • E=MC Hammer
  • The Scoreminators
  • Quizlamic Relations
  • Beyoncé Knowles-It-All
  • Sherlock Combs
  • Quiz Pratt
  • John Travulva
  • Victorious Secret
  • Smarty Pints
  • The Quizzy Rascals
  • Fact Hunt
  • Quizzards of Oz
  • Doctor Whom
  • Winnie the Pooh-Bahs
  • Quiztopher Biggins
  • Sofa King Clever
  • Bruce Almighty Quizzes
  • The Quizness End

Honest self-assessment

Names that tell the room exactly how the night is going to go. These get the warmest reaction, because everybody recognises the team.

  • Here For The Beer
  • We Thought This Was Speed Dating
  • In It For The Crisps
  • Hopeless And Thirsty
  • The Wooden Spooners
  • Google's Mates
  • Better Late Than Never
  • The Participation Trophies
  • Last Place Or Bust
  • The Answer Is Definitely 12
  • Two Girls, One Brain Cell
  • Simply Red Wine
  • We Came For The Chips
  • The Confused Genes
  • No Idea
  • Cash For Answers
  • The Sensible Choice
  • Quizzically Challenged
  • The Underdogs
  • Participation Is Its Own Reward
  • Team Name Pending
  • We Only Came For The Toilet
  • Reasonable Doubt
  • Second Place Specialists

Food and drink

Always safe in a pub, and the easiest category to make local by swapping in whatever the bar is known for.

  • Fish and Quiz Chips
  • The Lager Louts
  • Gin and Tonic Quizzers
  • Bready Or Not
  • Nacho Average Team
  • Pint Sized Brains
  • The Crisp Sandwich Society
  • Ale Or Nothing
  • Quiche Lorraine Kelly
  • The Dough Nuts
  • Beer Pressure
  • Hop To It
  • The Cheese Board
  • Pintellectuals
  • Bangers and Brains
  • The Roast Masters
  • Curry On Regardless
  • Chips Ahoy
  • Batter Late Than Never
  • The Gravy Train

Music and film

For teams who intend to win the music round and want everybody to know about it in advance.

  • The Rolling Scones
  • Fleetwood Mac and Cheese
  • The Beatles Juice
  • Lord of the Rings Of Fire
  • Dumbledore’s Army
  • The Spice Curls
  • Star Warsome
  • Quiz Khalifa
  • Blankety Blanks
  • The Bee Gees Knees
  • Sultans Of Swing And A Miss
  • Mambo Number Five A Side
  • The Rocky Whore-er Picture Show
  • Guess Who
  • Simply The Guessed
  • Spice Squirrels
  • Agatha Quiztie’s Understudies
  • The Sound Of Muesli

Straight wordplay

No reference needed. These work in any room, including one where nobody shares a cultural touchstone.

  • The Quizzard of Odds
  • Let Us Win
  • Risky Quizness
  • The Know-It-Ales
  • Under New Management
  • The Thinking Caps
  • Brain Freeze
  • The Usual Suspects
  • Multiple Scoregasms
  • The Fact-ory
  • Not The Winners
  • Bits and Bobs
  • Sporadic Genius
  • Mostly Harmless
  • The Late Bloomers
  • Educated Guessers
  • Trivia Pursuits
  • The Bar Stewards
  • Awkward Turtles
  • The Final Answer

Pick one before you sit down

Teams that arrive and then spend ten minutes on a name are the reason quiz nights start late.

Pick something you would not mind hearing read out in last place, because you might be. And if it works, keep it: a team that has been the same name for two years is part of the furniture of a quiz night, and hearing it read out is half of why they come.

If you are the one running the quiz

Award a point for the best team name. It costs nothing, it is the reason people put effort into their names, and it is what makes reading the results out worth doing.

And read every team's name out at the end, from the bottom up. A table that came ninth out of eleven still wants to hear the name they spent five minutes inventing. It takes ninety seconds and it is the cheapest goodwill a quiz night has.

Put the name on the leaderboard

Teams type their own name when they scan in, and it is on the board all night. The first session is free and needs no card.

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