Music quiz team names to steal for your next night out

Half the fun of a quiz night is the team name read out over the speaker, and a music round deserves a music pun. The lists below are sorted by vibe and by theme, so you can match the name to your table, and there's a short section on what makes a name actually land. Start with the puns.

Punny band and song twists

• Fleetwood Mac and Cheese
• The Rolling Scones
• Simply Red Herrings
• Spice Ghouls
• Notorious B.I.G. Brains
• The Beatles Juice
• Bon Jovi Wan Kenobi
• Sultans of Swing and a Miss
• Hall and Oates of the Storm
• Panic! At the Discotheque
• Guns N' Poses
• The Black Eyed Peasants

If you'd rather sound smart than silly, these lean more clever than groan.

Clever and quizzy

• Quiztina Aguilera
• Let's Get Quizzical
• Tone Deaf and Proud
• The Wrong Answers
• Here for the Music, Not the Points
• Universally Challenged
• Agatha Quiztie
• E equals MC Hammer
• Trivia Newton-John
• Les Quizerables
• The Quizness
• Weapons of Mass Discussion

And when the only goal is to make the room laugh, go straight for the silliest ones.

Just plain funny

• We Thought This Was Speed Dating
• In It for the Snacks
• Google's Biggest Fans
• Victorious Secret
• Not Fast, Just Furious
• The Answer Is Beyonce
• Last Place Champions
• Here for the Free Wifi
• The Snack Overflow
• Nul Points

Playing a themed night? Match the name to the genre on the card.

Genre themed

• Rock: Livin' on a Player, Sweet Child o' Wine, Highway to Kevin
• Pop: Ariana Grande Latte, Taylor's Versions, Dua Lipa Reading
• Hip-Hop: Salt-N-Pepa Diem, MC Hammer Time, Public Enemy No. 1
• Country: Achy Breaky Hearts, Dolly Llama, Old Town Roadies

By the decade

• 60s and 70s: Stairway to Seven, Disco Inferno No, The Vinyl Countdown, Bohemian Rhapscallions
• 80s and 90s: Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am, Backstreet's Back Alright, Total Eclipse of the Chart, Never Gonna Give You Points
• 2000s on: Mr. Brightside's Regulars, Blank Space Cadets, Sk8er Bois, Since U Been Wrong

Family friendly picks

For a family night, a kids' party, or a work event, keep it clean and cute:

• The Treble Makers
• Note-orious
• Rhythm and Clues
• The Quiz Kids
• The Sharp Notes
• In the Key of Win
• The Encore Crew
• Simply the Guest

How to pick a name that lands

A good team name does two jobs: it gets a laugh when it's read out, and it's short enough to read out at all. A few pointers:

• Keep it to a few words. Long names get mangled over a speaker.
• Pun on something the room knows. A reference to a band, song, or artist your table recognizes always beats a clever one nobody gets.
• Match the night's theme. A decades quiz wants a decade pun, a rock round wants a rock one.
• Keep it clean enough to say out loud. If the host has to wince reading it, pick another.

Now put the name to the test

Once the teams are named, they need a game. Tunigma runs a guess the song and guess the year showdown from a single phone, with a live scoreboard everyone can watch on a big screen. Set the decades, genres, and countries to fit your crowd, it plays the songs itself with no Spotify or other streaming app, and it's a free download. It works as the music round of a quiz night or the whole event on its own, and if you need questions to go with the names, here are some ready made music trivia questions.