St Patrick's Day Trivia Team Names

Clover puns, lucky names, gold and green: 146 team names clean enough for any room.

St Patrick's Day Trivia Team Names

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  1. Clover QualifiedOverqualified, said with a straight face.
  2. Green ThumbsGardeners' luck. The team hopes it carries into the science round.
  3. Stole a MarchTo steal a march on someone is to get ahead of them unnoticed.
  4. Beginner's LuckFor a team at its first quiz night.
  5. Heart of GoldKind, generous and still hoping to beat you.

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All 146 team names

Shamrock and clover puns 26

  • Between a Shamrock and a Hard Place Bends between a rock and a hard place. Save it for the hardest round.
  • Clover Achievers Overachievers with a C in front.
  • Clover and Out Over and out, the radio sign-off. Good for the final round.
  • Clover Easy Over easy, the way of frying an egg. A name for the first round.
  • Clover Night Success An overnight success, years in the making.
  • Clover Qualified Overqualified, said with a straight face.
  • Clover the Moon Over the moon, for a team that is happy with third.
  • Clover Thinkers Overthinkers. For the table that talks itself out of the right answer.
  • Clover Time Overtime. Keep it for a night that ends in a tie-break.
  • The Fourth Leaf The leaf that makes a clover lucky. About one clover in 5,000 has it.
  • Game Clover Game over, with a leaf on it.
  • In Clover An old phrase for being well off and content.
  • Lucky Leaf Club Plain and easy to say, for a team that wants no explaining.
  • No Sham, All Rock A sham is a fake. This team says it is the real thing.
  • One in Five Thousand Roughly how rare a four-leaf clover is, by one survey's count.
  • Rolling in Clover A longer way to say well off.
  • Sham-Rock Solid Rock solid, for a team that expects to be right.
  • Sham-Rock Stars Rock stars with a hyphen, so the answer sheet shows the joke.
  • Shamrock and Roll Rock and roll with a shamrock in front. It reads as well as it sounds.
  • Shamrock Bottom Rock bottom. Funniest read out in last place.
  • Shamrock Paper Scissors Rock paper scissors, which is how this team settles a split vote.
  • Shamrock the Boat Rock the boat, bent. For a team that plans to upset the leaders.
  • Three Leaves, No Clue A shamrock has three leaves. The clue is still missing.
  • Trefoil Trio Trefoil is another name for clover, from the Latin for three and leaf. For a table of three.
  • Turning Over a New Leaf A fresh start after last week's score.
  • Young Clover What shamrock means: the Irish seamróg is the small form of the word for clover.

Lucky names 26

  • As Luck Would Have It The phrase that opens every story about a lucky guess.
  • Beginner's Luck For a team at its first quiz night.
  • Better Lucky Than Good The old saying, taken as a team motto.
  • Down on Our Luck Lands best when the team is read out near the bottom.
  • Fingers Crossed What the table does while the host reads the answers.
  • Hard Luck Stories Every table has one about the answer it nearly wrote down.
  • Horseshoe Over the Door A horseshoe kept as a charm is thought to be lucky.
  • Just Our Luck What the table says when its best subject is skipped.
  • Knock on Wood Said after every answer nobody is sure of.
  • Luck Has Nothing to Do With It A confident name. It needs a win to back it up.
  • Luck of the Draw For the team that drew the picture round.
  • Lucky Charm School Charm school teaches manners. This one hands out four-leaf clovers.
  • Lucky Dip British for a tub of hidden prizes you draw from without looking. Much like our answers.
  • Lucky Last For the team that hands its sheet in after everyone else.
  • Lucky Number Seven For a table of seven, or a team hoping for seven out of ten.
  • Lucky Pennies The found coin that the finder keeps, just in case.
  • Lucky Streak For a team with two wins behind it. Risky before the first.
  • No Such Luck Read out with the scores, it answers itself.
  • Out of Luck, Into the Lead Wishful, and long enough to slow the host down.
  • Pure Dumb Luck An honest account of how round two went.
  • Push Your Luck For the table that always bets on the bonus round.
  • Stroke of Luck One good guess, credited fairly.
  • Third Time Lucky For a third visit, or a table of three.
  • Tough Luck Club Membership is open to anyone who changed a right answer.
  • Try Our Luck Modest, and true of any guess.
  • Wish Us Luck Polite, short and quick to write on every sheet.

Gold and rainbow names 28

  • After the Rain When rainbows turn up, and when this team starts scoring.
  • All That Glitters Is not gold, the proverb goes on. Nor is every confident answer.
  • Arc of Triumph A rainbow is an arc. The name bends the arch of triumph.
  • Chasing Rainbows The phrase for chasing what can't be caught, such as first place.
  • Crock of Gold Crock is an old word for an earthenware pot.
  • Double Rainbow A second, fainter arc outside the first, with its colors in reverse order.
  • End of the Rainbow Where the old story hides the pot of gold.
  • Fool's Gold The nickname of pyrite, a mineral that passes for gold at a glance.
  • Gilt Trip A guilt trip, spelled with gilt, the thin layer of gold on a frame.
  • Going for Gold First place or nothing.
  • Gold Leaf Gold hammered into very thin sheets. It ties the gold to the clover.
  • Gold Mine of Useless Facts The honest description of any good quiz team.
  • Gold Rush Hour A gold rush and a rush hour in one name.
  • Gold Star Students The sticker from the top of a school worksheet.
  • Golden Oldies For the table that wins the history round.
  • Golden Opportunity What every tie-break question is.
  • Good as Gold As good as gold means well behaved. This team never argues with the host.
  • Heart of Gold Kind, generous and still hoping to beat you.
  • Indi-Go-Getters Go-getters, with the rainbow's sixth color in front.
  • Rainbow's End The same spot, in two words for a narrow answer sheet.
  • Refraction Faction A rainbow is sunlight bent and spread out by water drops. The faction rhymes.
  • ROY G. BIV The memory aid for the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
  • Seven Colors, One Team The rainbow as a head count. Works for a table of seven.
  • Silence Is Golden A risky motto on a night of whispered answers.
  • Solid Gold Guesses Guesses, but good ones.
  • Struck Gold For the round where every answer lands.
  • Twenty-Four Karat Gold of 24 karats is counted as pure. A high bar for a quiz team.
  • Worth Our Weight in Gold A boast, best said by a small team.

Green names 31

  • Eat Your Greens Advice from every dinner table, now on an answer sheet.
  • The Emerald Aisle The Emerald Isle is a nickname for Ireland. This is the row of seats by the door.
  • Emerald Smile The same nickname, bent the other way.
  • Envy of the Room Green with envy, seen from the winning table.
  • Forgot to Wear Green For the one teammate who came in blue.
  • Going Green True of the whole room on the 17th.
  • The Grass Is Greener On the other side of the room, where the winners sit.
  • Green Around the Gills The phrase for looking queasy. Saved for the math round.
  • Green Light, Go A name for the team that answers before the question ends.
  • Green Room Regulars The green room is where performers wait before they go on.
  • Green Thumbs Gardeners' luck. The team hopes it carries into the science round.
  • Green With Envy For the team one point behind the winners.
  • Greener Pastures Where this team is headed after the music round.
  • Greenhorns A greenhorn is a beginner. Honest on a first visit.
  • In the Lime Light The limelight with a lime in it, for a team that likes being read out.
  • Jaded Jade is a green stone, and jaded is how round six feels.
  • Kelly Green Machine Kelly green is a shade of green. The machine is optional.
  • Lean, Green and Keen Three rhymes and a fair description of a new team.
  • Mean Green Quiz Machine A lean, mean machine, repainted for the day.
  • Mint to Be Meant to be, in a shade of green.
  • Moss Bosses Soft, green and in charge.
  • Olive Us All of us, said quickly. Olive is a green too.
  • Peas and Thank You Please and thank you, with a green vegetable in it.
  • Putting Greens Where a round of golf is finished, a few inches at a time.
  • Sage Advice Sage is a wise person and a gray-green. Both apply.
  • Salad Days Shakespeare's phrase for youth: my salad days, when I was green in judgment.
  • Sea Green and Not Heard Seen and not heard, bent around a shade of green.
  • Shades of Green Lime, olive, sage, jade and mint are all on this list.
  • True Blue in Green True blue means loyal. Blue is tied to Saint Patrick too: an order of knights founded in 1783 took it.
  • Village Greens The patch of grass in the middle of a village.
  • Wearing Green, Seeing Red Dressed for the day and cross about question nine.

March 17 and the parade 19

  • Float Builders Every parade needs somebody to build the floats.
  • Forward March An order and a month in two words.
  • Ides Plus Two The Ides of March fall on the 15th. The quiz is two days later.
  • In Like a Lion From the saying that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.
  • March Hares Mad as a March hare is an old saying, possibly from how hares behave in spring.
  • March On What a team does after a bad round.
  • March Seventeenth The date of the day itself.
  • Marching Band Dropouts They kept the sense of timing and lost the uniform.
  • Marching Orders What the team captain gives before round one.
  • One Day a Year How often this name works. Make it count.
  • Out Like a Lamb The second half of the same saying. Gentler in the last round.
  • Parade Marshals The people at the front of the parade. Suits a team that leads from round one.
  • Parade Route Regulars For the table that has a favorite spot on the curb.
  • Quick March The parade-ground command to set off. For a fast start.
  • Rain on Our Parade What the picture round did.
  • The River Dyers Chicago dyes its river green for the day.
  • Since 1601 The year of the first parade for the day in what is now the United States.
  • Spring Forward Half of the clock rule: spring forward, fall back.
  • Stole a March To steal a march on someone is to get ahead of them unnoticed.

Jigs, reels and limericks 16

  • AABBA A limerick's rhyme scheme: lines one, two and five rhyme, and so do three and four.
  • Céilí Crowd A céilí is a traditional social gathering with music and dancing. Say it KAY-lee.
  • Fiddle Me This Riddle me this, with a fiddle.
  • Fiddlesticks An old word for nonsense, and what a fiddler plays with.
  • Fit as a Fiddle In fine shape, at least until the sports round.
  • Hard Shoes, Soft Answers Irish dance has hard shoes and soft shoes. The answers are in pencil.
  • Harp on About It Ireland's coat of arms is a harp of gold, strung with silver, on blue.
  • The Jig Is Up The phrase for a trick found out. Also a dance.
  • Jigs and Reels Two kinds of dance tune. A jig is a lively folk dance in compound meter.
  • Knot Our First Quiz Not our first quiz, tied in a Celtic knot.
  • Limerick Writers A limerick is a verse of five lines, and this team has one about the host.
  • Out of Step For a team of dancers who lost the count somewhere in round three.
  • Reel Clever Real clever, spelled like the dance. It needs the answer sheet.
  • Slip Jig A jig in 9/8 time. For a team that loses count on purpose.
  • There Once Was a Team The way a limerick likes to begin.
  • Tin Whistle Blowers Whistleblowers on a tin whistle, a small woodwind with six holes.

How it works

These St. Patrick's Day trivia team names are built on shamrocks, luck, gold and green, with no drinking joke and no stereotype in the list.

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Green names, and the group few people guess

The All team names menu holds six groups. Green names is the largest, with 31. The one few people guess is March 17 and the parade, with 19. Ides Plus Two works because the Ides of March fall on the 15th. The name Since 1601 marks the first St. Patrick's Day parade in what is now the United States.

Three names that are also quiz answers

Young Clover is what shamrock means: the Irish seamróg is the small form of the word for clover. True Blue in Green has a fact behind it: blue became tied to Saint Patrick after an order of knights founded in 1783 adopted it. Fool's Gold is the nickname of pyrite.

  • Reel Clever and Mint to Be only work written down. Fiddle Me This and Olive Us need the host's voice.
  • A table of three can take Trefoil Trio or Third Time Lucky. A table of seven has Seven Colors, One Team.
  • Shamrock Bottom and No Such Luck are funniest read out in last place. Luck Has Nothing to Do With It needs a win.

Questions and answers

What is a good St. Patrick's Day trivia team name?

One the host can read out to a mixed room. Clover Achievers, Shamrock and Roll and Going for Gold are clean and quick to get. For a first visit, try Beginner's Luck or Greenhorns, since a greenhorn is a beginner.

Are there Irish trivia team names that are not about drinking?

Yes. Jigs, reels and limericks holds 16 built on music, dance and verse, such as Fiddle Me This, Slip Jig and There Once Was a Team. Harp on About It points at the gold harp on Ireland's coat of arms. None leans on an accent.

What is the difference between a shamrock and a four-leaf clover?

A shamrock is a sprig of young clover with three leaves, used as a symbol of Ireland. A four-leaf clover is the rare lucky one, about one clover in 5,000. So Three Leaves, No Clue and The Fourth Leaf are two different jokes.

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