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Pub Quiz Team Name - Help Needed

52 replies

melspur · 09/03/2022 18:20

I have a longstanding pub quiz team and we can't settle on a permanent, punny team name, I know there are seriously funny people amongst the MN crowd and was hoping you could all hit me up with some funny suggestions, please.

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TarcasticSwat · 09/03/2022 19:36

Quiz on my face

Yeah I went there...sorry a lot of the others were just too vanilla.

BirdOnTheWire · 09/03/2022 19:40

I do li,e the topical approach.
Some I've seen a lot such as Quizzy Rascals and You're a Quizzard, Harry!
We often use Scrambled Eggheads
DS and his friends go to a weekly quiz and the landlord has changed it to monthly. So their team name is now " Bring back the weekly quiz"

Sandsnake · 09/03/2022 21:39

Crimea River

SilverHairedCat · 09/03/2022 21:40

Judean People's Front
People's Front of Judea

SeldomAthletic · 09/03/2022 21:42

I stole my user name from my Dad’s pub quiz team.

Albern · 09/03/2022 21:44

Our quiz team was called 'universally challenged ' , we were pretty shit though !

RomainingCalm · 09/03/2022 21:48

Norfolk 'n' Chance was a regular team at our local pub quiz.

DasAlteLeid · 09/03/2022 22:02

Quizzie Borden

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 09/03/2022 22:02

@Sandsnake

Crimea River
Too soon Grin
CoffeeBeansGalore · 09/03/2022 22:03

The Answer Masters

user1471548941 · 09/03/2022 22:12

Hello fellow pub quizzer!

I am on Let’s Get Quizzical!

Other teams in our pub:

Quiz Akabusi
Quizzy Rascalls
You’re a Quizard Harry
Here for the crisps (booby prize is bag of crisps)
The Four Non Blondes
Quizzing in the Name
In Dog Beers We’ve Only Had One
Quizzly Bears
Cunning Linguists
Quiz in my Pants

Mydogsnotfat · 09/03/2022 22:12

We were, “I thought this was speed dating”, last time…

notprincehamlet · 10/03/2022 00:02

Brians of Britain

VeniVidiWeeWee · 10/03/2022 00:13

I think it should be Norfolk Enchants.

ToofFairy · 10/03/2022 00:27

Big Fact Hunt

MarmiteCoriander · 10/03/2022 00:33

Chucking Fampions

poodlepoop · 10/03/2022 00:41

Pistol Knights

myusernamewastakenbyme · 10/03/2022 11:24

At ours we used to call ourselves 'the drinks are on the house'....quite amusing as it was the tight arse landlord who would have to read it out at the end.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 10/03/2022 12:17

Norfolk Enchants (or the meaningless 'Norfolk in chance'???), Universally Challenged and Quizlings are ones that were once funny, but they've been so overused, they just sound so completely unimaginative now - especially when the team announce their name with a loud 'aren't we hilarious' chuckle.... even more so when you get another team called the same. However funny something is at first, as soon as it gets copied and spread, it loses all humour very quickly.

I went to a quiz some time ago where there were two teams with effectively the same weak-pun name - one letter different, but no difference normally in pronunciation. The quizmaster ended up having to unnaturally emphasise the one letter difference, in order to distinguish between the two. What was probably intended to sound quite clever just ended up so cringeworthy.

Almost worse are the ones where nobody has made the slightest effort - even when they've known for weeks that they're doing the quiz and need a good name. I've been to so many quizzes where there are teams called 'Us In The Corner', 'Him & Him & Her', 'The Two of Us' and similar.

I like the topical ones and those that are designed to tease/confuse the quizmaster; but beware of ones that are too long, as the QM will just end up abbreviating them. I once went to a quiz where there was a (surprisingly mixed) team called 'My Girlfriend Is No Fighter But You Should See Her Box'. Hilarious, I'm sure if you're 13 - but they were just referred to as the mundane 'My Girlfriend', which didn't really have the desired effect.

I think you have to come up with something yourself, ideally avoiding any riff on the word 'quiz' as, funny though they originally were, they're just all so old and overused now. Maybe use a slightly-bowdlerised MN phrase that will leave everybody else scratching their heads in puzzlement but will instantly identify any fellow MNers in attendance. Something like 'The Rank Badgers' or 'The Sock Wombles' Grin

inappropriateraspberry · 10/03/2022 12:25

One quiz, when they asked for our team name, and we didn't have one, I just said 'Trevor.' It's a name.

inappropriateraspberry · 10/03/2022 12:28

We're only here for the money.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
Always in the right.

Justkeeppedaling · 10/03/2022 14:02

We used to call ourselves "The Marlborough Massive".

AmyDudley · 10/03/2022 15:46

'Now is the winner of our quiz content'

Biffa44 · 10/03/2022 17:45

The Odds are Against Us.......

inappropriateraspberry · 10/03/2022 21:00

A topical one - Putin on the ritz?