Quiz nights, often known as pub quizzes, trivia nights, or bar trivia is a popular way to spend an evening in friendly company for a fun night out or at home. Born in the UK in the 1970s, quiz nights were invented to bring in customers into the bar for slower nights by Sharon Burns and Tom Porter, who founded the first pub quiz leagues.

Trivia team names.

If you’re starting a quiz team and are looking for the perfect name, we can help. Whether your goal is to strike fear into the hearts opponents or make people share a good laugh browse our suggestions below.

Funny Trivia Team Names

Are you kidding me?

If you are thinking of funny names for a trivia team these will crack you up.

  • Act Like You’ve Been Here Before.
  • After Shockers.
  • Agatha Quiztie.
  • Alcohol Is The Real Winner.
  • Artificial Intelligence.
  • Attention Deficit.
  • Axis of No Talent.
  • Clueless.
  • Communists.
  • Dumb And Dumber.
  • Dyslexic Brains.
  • E = MC Hammer.
  • Game of Phones
  • I am Smarticius.
  • I Might Be Wrong.
  • In it for the Swag
  • Insert Team Name Here.
  • Ithering Blidiots.
  • Know It Ales.
  • Last Minute Google
  • Lebowski’s ‘Lil Urban Achievers.
  • My Drinking Team Has A Trivia Problem.
  • Nerd Herd

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  • No Kangaroos In Austria.
  • Quiz Khalifa
  • Quiz Me Baby One More Time
  • Quizlamic State.
  • Quizteama Aguilera.
  • Red Hot Trivia Peppers.
  • Russia Already Told Me The Answers.
  • Someone In This Team Is Constipated.
  • The Brewsual Suspects.
  • The Smarty Pints
  • Trivia Tramps.
  • Walt Quizney
  • We Drink And We Know Things.
  • We Paid For Trivia And All We Got Was Drunk.
  • We will destroy you and burn your village.
  • We’ll Bring All The Answers Tonight.

Creative Trivia Team Names


Creativity is not limited to art, design, and music. You can also express creativity through a trivia team name as demonstrated below.

  • 700 Nights A Year
  • Alternative Facts
  • Apple-Bottomed Geniuses
  • At Least We’re Housebroken
  • Champions of Life
  • Gin And Topics.
  • Google Geeks
  • Google Will Help
  • Great Minds Drink Alike.
  • Here With You Now
  • If You Trivia Without Beer, Is It Still Trivia?.
  • Jalapeno Hotties.
  • Lavish Display Of Ignorance.
  • Let’s Start With The Basics
  • Let’s Get Quizzical
  • Lettuce Win
  • Make Trivia great again
  • Menace to Sobriety
  • Morning After Pilsner
  • Our Best Team Name
  • Our Punny Name
  • Quizanthemums
  • Quiztopher Quiztopherson.
  • Rehab Is For Quitters.
  • Risky Quizness.
  • Sauvignon Drawing A Blanc.
  • Smartinis
  • Tequila Mockingbird
  • The Greatest Show On Stools
  • The Mighty Morphin’ Flower Arrangers.
  • The quiz is about to start and we don’t have a team name yet!
  • The Smartest Guys in the Room
  • The Stalwart Team
  • The Winners
  • Time And Time Again
  • Trivia Newton John
  • Very Stable Geniuses
  • We’ll Probably Lose, But We’ll Pretend to Enjoy Ourselves.
  • We’re Happy To Share
  • Whining Winners
  • Years Of Trivia Nights
  • You’re a Quizard, Harry

Cool Trivia Team Names

Gather the whole gang together.

Staying cool is important, especially if you rarely win at trivia competitions. So for the coolest names in the bar, we’ve got you covered.

  • A Team With No Name.
  • Abbey-Normal.
  • Beyoncé Knows
  • Born to Runner-Up
  • Emilio Estevez’s Mighty Ducks
  • Fo Shizzle My Quizzle.
  • Free Thinkers
  • Cool and My Gang
  • Google United
  • I Quiz Therefore I Am.
  • It’s Not Small, It’s Just Trivial.
  • Let’s Get Ready to Stumble!
  • No Eye Dear
  • Norfolk And Chance
  • Not Sure How To Pronounce This.
  • Periodic Table Dancers
  • Pinky and the Brains
  • Plan B Is Our Plan A.
  • Question Heirs
  • Quizmas Carolers

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  • Time Hop Rascals
  • Quizzy Mcquizface
  • Really Smart Squad.
  • Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
  • Sherlock Homies
  • Shot In The Dark.
  • Stomping On Your Dreams.
  • Team Team.
  • The A Team
  • The Caboose (we come in last)
  • The Eggheads
  • The Know-It-Alls
  • The Think Tank.
  • The Trivial Pursuit Of Happiness.
  • The Village idiots
  • The Wikipedias
  • Thin Quizzie
  • We have a name, but we’re not telling you!
  • We Met On Craigslist.
  • We Who Shall Not Be Named.
  • When You’re This Drunk, The Team Name Doesn’t Matter.
  • You Wine Some,

Family Friendly Team Names for Trivia

Gather the family together for trivia.

Trivia quizzes are not just for adults. They can family events the kids can get involved in as well. So for the more family-friendly quiz teams, these politically correct and perfectly appropriate suggestions work for the whole gang.

  • As Seen on TV.
  • Chicken and Quaffles.
  • Dead Sirius.
  • The Andersons.
  • Donut Call List.
  • Dumbledorks.
  • Eat Before Trivia.
  • Expecto-Winno!
  • Fellowship of the Quiz
  • Google it.
  • Guessing isn’t Trivia.
  • I am Smartacus.
  • I Refuse to Say This Name.
  • John Trivialta.
  • Johnny Cash was not a pay toilet.
  • Know Eye Deer.
  • Let’s Get Trivial
  • Luck has nothing to do with it.
  • Make Trivia Great Again.
  • Milwaukee Talkies.
  • Out Of Eligibility.
  • Pigs Fly.
  • Pink Freud.
  • Quizzically Challenged.
  • Quiz Bears.
  • Sherlock Homies.
  • Team MollyWobbles.
  • Team Quiz Noid.
  • Hankering for Questions.
  • The League of Extraordinary Guessers.
  • The Quizoner of Azkaban.
  • The Spanish In-quiz-ition.
  • The Talent Pool.
  • Related to Trivia.
  • Triviaholics.
  • Mom and Dad’s Questions.
  • Universally Challenged
  • We’re Just Guessing!
  • Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.
  • You Are Correct!

Inappropriate Trivia Team Names

Use these team names at your own risk.

On the other side of the fence, many pub quiz and trivia teams use wholly inappropriate names for their teams to make people laugh or to be rude. So if you’re searching for the most inappropriate trivia quiz names on the planet, we’ve published some ideas here.

  • A Beautiful Place To Put Your Face
  • A Yankee Is Like A Quickie That You Do Yourself
  • Abortion Survivors.
  • And The Wiener Is.
  • Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? Because We Brought One
  • Ask More Topics About her.
  • At Least Your Mum Finished School.
  • Better Late Than Pregnant
  • Crouching Woman Hidden Cucumber
  • Does This Handkerchief Smell Like Chloroform To You?
  • Donald Trump’s Barber Shop
  • Five Girls, One Cup
  • Geeks Who Drink.
  • Handsfree Lightsabers
  • I Came On Eileen
  • I Think One Of My Dads Is Gay.
  • I Thought This Was A Pub Crawl.
  • I Thought This Was Speed Dating
  • I’m Looking For Amanda Huggankiss.
  • I’m Only Here to Establish an Alibi
  • Ingenious, Unusual And Often Rude
  • It’s a Game of Inches, Just Ask Your Wife
  • Love Sponge
  • Love Stains
  • Menace II Sobriety
  • Multiple Scoregasms
  • My Drinking Team Has a Trivia Problem
  • My Trivia Partner Doesn’t Know This Is a Date
  • Our Fourth Man Is In Labour
  • Quiz in My Pants
  • Rehab Is For Quitters
  • Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, I’m Bad At Poetry, Nice T*ts
  • Save A Tree, Eat A Beaver
  • Something Offensive.
  • Spooning Leads To Forking
  • Step Dads, We Beat You and You Hate us.
  • Sweep the Leg.
  • The Kids R. Kelly Peed On
  • Waiting For the Bartender’s Tits to Fall Out
  • We’d Be Better Trivia Players, but We’re Too Busy Having Sex
  • We’re Single Text Us After
  • Why Doez Zee Quizmaster Mock Doich-land?.
  • Wings Or Porn – Either Way You’ll Have A Mess On Your Hands
  • You Cant Quiz With Us

Quarantine Trivia Team Names

Test your knowledge in a virtual environment.

The quarantine has some effect on trivia quizzes, but with the internet freely available to all, it slipped into the ether and became a popular lockdown pastime for all kinds of people, including those that had never tried pub quizzes before. And in that light, we have some awesome quarantine quiz names you can use during COVID and beyond.

  • (Not Leaving The) House Hippos
  • Auntie Viral
  • Baby Are You Lockdown Down Down Down Down
  • Bring Me A High R, Love
  • Centaurs For Disease Control
  • Corona-Light Virus
  • Russell Crowe Virus
  • Covid-69
  • In-House Quizzers
  • Flu Fighters
  • Furlough Sweet Chariot
  • Get a Zoom
  • GoinViral
  • Got The City On Lockdown
  • Don’t be Left Home Alone
  • It’s Not All Zoom & Gloom
  • Livin’ COVIDA Loca
  • Living La Vida Lockdown
  • Lockdown And Out
  • Love In The Time Of Covid
  • Lysol Lungs
  • Lysol On The Rocks
  • Nerd Immunity
  • OK Zoomer
  • Pandemic! At The Disco
  • Panic! At The Tesco

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  • Professor Quiz Witty
  • Band of Masks
  • Quarantina Aguilera
  • Quarantina Turner
  • Quarantine Queens
  • Family of Questions
  • Quentin Quarantino
  • Quizvid-19
  • SixFeetBack
  • Social Disturbers
  • Social Quiz-stancing
  • Staff Disinfect(ion)
  • Takeout Only
  • Two Many Questions
  • Two PPEs In A Pod
  • We Get Locked Down, But We Get Up Again
  • We got all the TP!!
  • WebMD says I have Coronavirus
  • Tik-Tok Clan

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