What to call your quiz team is probably the most difficult question in any quiz. Unless you’re pub quiz regulars with an established team name, there are often anxious minutes at the start of proceedings discussing your terrific team moniker. How heated it becomes is frequently a foretaste of things to come!

Here at Brain Men we’ve presented close to a thousand quizzes professionally, and we’ve heard every team name in the book.

There are the sensible types who don’t waste their grey cells on something they deem too trivial. They’ll be ‘Team Dave’, ‘The Red Team’ or ‘The Team in the Corner’. After all, why expend any energy when you need all your reserves for the battle ahead?

Then there are the team names that we’ve heard hundreds of times. These tend to be based on chart toppers, shows, or well known people. ‘Let’s Get Quizzical’, ‘Quizteam Aguilera’, ‘Quizee Rascals’, ‘Agatha Quiztie’, ‘Les Quizerables’, ‘Universally Challenged’ and ‘Simple Minds’ are in this category. During lockdown, when Zoom quizzes were a thing, popular favourites included ‘Professor Quiz Whitty’, ‘Set Pfizers To Stun’, ‘Nerd Immunity’ and ‘You’re On Mute!’.

But occasionally teams will try to impress the Quiz Master and the rest of the room with their creativity by coming up with an ingenious name that’s original and amusing. It’ll take longer to think of, and it has the potential to fall flat on its face, but if you hit the mark everyone will be impressed with your intellectual prowess. It won’t win you any bonus points, not in our quizzes at least, but you will have the satisfaction of knowing you’re the cleverest folk in the room – at least when it comes to thinking of team names!

Here are the top five team names that have tickled our pickle:

Norfolk ‘n’ Chance (read it aloud and you’ll get it)

Single Brain Cell

Our Drinking Team Has A Trivia Problem

The Question Heirs

What’s Our Team Name

And The Winning Team Is… (who invariably come last)

There are cruder examples, but we’ll spare your blushes.

So, whether you want to bond by choosing a witty team name, or just haven’t got the inclination, it’s up to you. Whatever your strategy, if you have a professional team like Brain Men running your quiz event you’re in for an evening of fantastic facts and fabulous fun!