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Trivia Team Names for Women

Names for a table of moms, sisters, friends or coworkers, with nothing about looks, age or men.

Trivia Team Names for Women

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  1. Urania's StargazersUrania is the Muse of astronomy.
  2. Forces of NatureA force of nature is somebody nothing can stop.
  3. The AssistersAssist, with sisters in it. They help each other to the answer.
  4. Taught Us Everything We KnowA thank-you if the table wins, and an accusation if it loses.
  5. Team Leads, All of UsToo many captains and one pencil.

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Moms' night out 40

  • Bake Sale Veterans Brownies cut, wrapped and priced by the morning of the sale, many times over.
  • Because the Sitter Said Yes The only reason this table is full tonight.
  • The Carpool Lane The lane for cars that carry passengers, and the school run by another name.
  • Cold Coffee Club Poured hot, found cold on the counter much later.
  • Counting to Three One, two, two and a half. Every child knows what three means.
  • Did You Actually Look Asked just before the thing is found in plain sight.
  • Don't Make Us Turn This Quiz Around Don't make me turn this car around, said from the driver's seat on every long trip.
  • The Drop-Off Line The slow line of cars outside a school each morning.
  • Eyes in the Back of Our Heads What mothers are said to have. Useful when the next table whispers.
  • Five More Minutes What gets asked at bedtime, and what the table wants on the last round.
  • Fridge Art Curators Every drawing goes on the refrigerator, and somebody decides what stays up.
  • It's on the Calendar One person keeps the family calendar. She is at this table.
  • It's Where You Left It The answer to most questions asked at home.
  • The Juice Box Brigade Straw in at the first try. A skill no quiz has asked for yet.
  • Laundry Can Wait It will still be there tomorrow. The quiz will not.
  • Lost Sock Detectives The case nobody closes. Pairs go in the wash and single socks come out.
  • Mama Bears A mama bear is a mother who is fiercely protective. Tonight she guards the answer sheet.
  • Maternal Instincts A mother's sense that something is off. Here it picks between two answers.
  • The Matriarchs A matriarch is the woman who leads a family.
  • The Mom Voice The tone that stops a room. Lend it to the host when the tables will not settle.
  • Mom's Taxi Service Practice, rehearsal, a friend's house. Tonight the taxi is off duty.
  • Moms' Night Off The plain truth of the evening. Somebody else is doing bedtime.
  • Mother Knows the Answer Mother knows best, moved to quiz night.
  • The Mother Lode A mother lode is the principal vein of gold or silver ore, and so a rich source of anything.
  • Mother May I The children's game where every step needs permission. Here it asks the host for a hint.
  • Mother of All Teams The mother of all anything is the biggest of its kind.
  • Mother Tongues A mother tongue is a first language. Strong in the word round.
  • Motherboards The motherboard is a computer's main printed circuit board. This one is a board of mothers.
  • Mum's the Word The saying means keep it quiet. The mum in it is an old word for silence, not for a mother.
  • Nap Time Negotiators Talks open after lunch every day and seldom end in a deal.
  • Not Your Mother's Quiz Team Not your mother's anything means the modern version. Except that this one is.
  • Put Your Shoes On Said over and over every morning. Read aloud, it sounds like an order to the room.
  • Room Parents The volunteers who help a teacher with a class's parties and trips.
  • The Sitter Leaves at Ten A deadline the whole room can hear. Ask the host to keep the last round moving.
  • Snacks in Every Bag Ask this table for a granola bar and you will be offered a choice.
  • Still Finding Glitter One craft afternoon, and it keeps turning up.
  • We Brought Tissues And wipes, and a pen that works. The table that other tables borrow from.
  • We Know Where Everything Is Shoes, chargers, the other glove. Capital cities are less certain.
  • What's the Magic Word Said at every dinner table. Read aloud, it sounds like the host asking a question.
  • World's Okayest Quiz Team The joke mug says world's okayest mom. This is the team version, and it is honest.

With mom, daughters and aunts 24

  • Apples and the Tree The apple does not fall far from the tree. The tree is sitting at the table.
  • Ask Mom The oldest search engine in the house.
  • The Aunt Farm An ant farm, with aunts.
  • Auntie Up To ante up is to put in your stake before a hand of cards. The aunts are in.
  • Cool Aunts The aunt who lets you stay up late. Tonight she is on the team.
  • Cousins, Basically Sisters Cousins who grew up together count as sisters. No host has checked.
  • Fairy Godmothers In fairy tales the fairy godmother arrives when help is needed. The table is still waiting.
  • Her Mother's Daughters A woman who takes after her mother is called her mother's daughter.
  • Like Mother, Like Daughter The old saying, for a table where both are holding pencils.
  • Mom and the Backups For any table with one mother and whoever came with her.
  • Mom Has the Pencil The captain is whoever holds the pencil. Nobody argued.
  • Mom Is Typing The three dots that run for a full minute and end in OK.
  • Mom Knows This One Said every round, and usually true.
  • Mom Said We Could Permission, granted in advance.
  • Mom Squared Two mothers at one table, or a mother and a grandmother.
  • Mom's Entourage An entourage is the group that travels with somebody important.
  • Mom's Favorites, Plural Every daughter claims to be the favorite. The name settles it for one night.
  • Mother's Day Off For a Mother's Day quiz. She picked the plan.
  • Mother-Daughter Doubles Doubles is the two-a-side form of tennis. For a table of two.
  • Raised by a Quiz Champion Flattery for the mother at the table. It costs nothing.
  • Sisters-in-Law, Technically Family by marriage, teammates by choice.
  • Taught Us Everything We Know A thank-you if the table wins, and an accusation if it loses.
  • Three Generations, One Pencil A grandmother, a mother and a daughter cover a lot of decades between them.
  • We Brought Mom She is here for the history round, and she knows it.

Sisters 24

  • The Assisters Assist, with sisters in it. They help each other to the answer.
  • Big Sister Energy She was in charge then, and she is in charge of the pencil now.
  • Eldest Daughters Club The eldest daughter is said to run the family. This one runs the answer sheet.
  • Half Sisters, Whole Answers The fraction is in the family tree, not on the answer sheet.
  • Hand-Me-Downs Clothes passed from the older sister to the younger. So were the answers.
  • Little Sister Knows She was told she was too young to play. Look who has the answer.
  • The Middle Sisters Middle children say nobody listens to them. This is the round to start.
  • Mom Likes Me Best Each sister says it. The name lets one of them say it to a full room.
  • The Nice Stepsisters In the fairy tale the stepsisters are the unkind ones. These came to help.
  • The Seven Sisters Another name for the Pleiades, a star cluster in Taurus. For a table of seven.
  • Shared a Room, Share a Pencil Years of practice at dividing things down the middle.
  • She Started It The defense heard in every back seat.
  • Sibling Revelry Sibling rivalry with two letters moved. Revelry is noisy fun.
  • Sister Cities A sister city, or twin town, is one of two places paired by a formal agreement.
  • Sister Ships Sister ships are built to the same class or design.
  • Sister Signals A raised eyebrow across the table that means I am sure, write it down.
  • The Sisterhood A sisterhood is a group of women with a common cause. Tonight the cause is second place or better.
  • Sisters by Chance Sisters by chance, friends by choice, as the saying goes.
  • Sisters of the Round Table The round table of legend has no head, so everybody seated at it is equal.
  • Sorority Sisters Sorority comes from soror, the Latin word for sister.
  • Soul Sisters Friends so alike that they might be related.
  • That's My Sweater Sisters share a closet whether they agree to or not.
  • The Three Sisters Maize, beans and squash, planted together by various Indigenous peoples of Central and North America.
  • Twin Telepathy Twins are said to finish each other's sentences. Handy when the answer is on the tip of a tongue.

Girls' night 32

  • Best Friends, Worst Guessers The first half is true. The scoreboard will decide the second.
  • The Brunch Bunch They usually meet over eggs. Tonight it is answer sheets.
  • Damsels in Success Damsels in distress, turned round.
  • Finally All Free the Same Night It took a long thread of messages to find the date.
  • Forces of Nature A force of nature is somebody nothing can stop.
  • Friends Since Recess They met on the playground and never stopped comparing answers.
  • Gal Pals Friends for so long that nobody remembers who introduced whom.
  • The Gal Quorum A quorum is the smallest number of members who can hold a meeting.
  • Gal-vanized To galvanize is to stir somebody into action. The hyphen is the joke, so it needs paper.
  • Girls Who Know Plain, true and easy to hear over a noisy room.
  • Girls' Night in the Lead Girls' night in, on a good night. Check the scores before you write it down.
  • Girls' Night Out of Ideas Girls' night out, with an honest account of the last round.
  • The Group Chat, Live The people from the chat, in one room, saying it out loud.
  • Heroines of the Hour The hero of the hour is whoever just saved the day.
  • The Know-It-Gals Know-it-alls, one letter over.
  • Ladies in Waiting A lady-in-waiting attends a queen or a noblewoman. These are waiting for the scores.
  • Ladies of the Round A quiz is played in rounds, so this is a title.
  • Ladies' Knight Ladies' night, with the chess piece that moves in an L.
  • Lady Luck's Table Lady Luck is good fortune pictured as a woman. Invite her for the guesses.
  • Leading Ladies A leading lady plays the main role in a film or a play.
  • Most Powerful Piece In chess no piece is more powerful than the queen. She moves any distance, straight or on a diagonal.
  • Partners in Rhyme Partners in crime, for a table that is good at the poetry questions.
  • Pinky Promise Linking little fingers to seal a promise. This one is not to change the answer.
  • Queen Bees A queen bee is the egg-laying female of a hive, usually the mother of most of its bees.
  • Queens of the Quiz No crown is handed out. The name is for the answer sheet.
  • Roommates Reunited They once split the rent. Now they split the blame for a wrong answer.
  • She-nanigans Shenanigans, with she at the front. It only shows written down.
  • Sleepover Alumni Alumni are former students. These graduated from sleeping bags.
  • We Should Do This More Often Said at the end of every night out, and meant every time.
  • We're Usually a Book Club Same table, same people, and no book to pretend to have finished.
  • Who Brought the Good Pen There is always one, and everybody wants a turn with it.
  • Yes Ma'am The polite answer. Read out by the host, it sounds like the room agreeing.

Work teams of women 20

  • Chairwomen of the Board A chairwoman runs the board's meetings. Tonight the board is this table.
  • Colleagues by Day Teammates after hours.
  • Corner Office Hours The corner office goes to the boss, and office hours are when the door is open.
  • Department Heads Together Put your heads together, said of a table of managers.
  • Desk Neighbors The people who know what you eat for lunch every day.
  • Founding Mothers For the women who started the company, the club or the team.
  • Ladies of the Lab For a research group. Lab is short for laboratory.
  • Ladies of the Ledger A ledger is a book of accounts. For the finance department.
  • Ladies of the Library For a library's staff, who tend to be the team to beat.
  • Ladies of the Long Shift For the ward, the kitchen or the shop floor after a double shift.
  • Ladies Who Launch Ladies who lunch, moved to a product team on release day.
  • Madam Chair The form of address for a woman who chairs a meeting.
  • Our Own Bosses For a table of women who run their own businesses.
  • The She Suite The C-suite is a company's top executives, the chiefs. Change one letter.
  • She-E-Os CEO, with she in it. It only works written down.
  • Shift Sisters Coworkers on the same rota end up close as family.
  • The Steering Committee A steering committee sets the direction of a project. This one steers toward the right answer.
  • Team Leads, All of Us Too many captains and one pencil.
  • Women in STEM STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Bring it to the science round.
  • Work Wives A work wife is the colleague you tell everything. A table of them shares answers the same way.

Miss and Ms. puns 23

  • Hit or Miss Sometimes right and sometimes not, with no way to tell which in advance.
  • Miss Adventures Misadventures, the kind that start with a confident first answer.
  • Miss Calculations Miscalculations. Save it for the night the number round goes badly.
  • Miss Cellaneous Miscellaneous. For a table that knows a little about everything.
  • Miss Chief Mischief. Aloud it is the plain word, so the joke is on paper.
  • Miss Demeanors A misdemeanor is a minor offence, such as peeking at the next table.
  • Miss Fortune Misfortune. For the table that changed a right answer to a wrong one.
  • Miss Givings Misgivings are doubts. Every table has them about its last answer.
  • Miss Guided Misguided, like the route the table took to its answer.
  • Miss Information Misinformation, split in two. A risky name for a quiz team, which is the joke.
  • Miss Judged Misjudged. The other tables wrote this team off too early.
  • Miss Matched Mismatched. For a table that agrees on nothing.
  • Miss Placed Misplaced, as in confidence.
  • Miss Print A misprint is a printing error. Blame the answer sheet.
  • Miss Quoted Misquoted. For the round on who said what.
  • Miss Read Misread. The question said which of these is not.
  • Miss Spelled Misspelled. Ask the host early whether spelling counts.
  • Miss Taken Mistaken. Honest, and funny when the score is read out.
  • Miss Understood Misunderstood. The claim to make when the host marks you wrong.
  • Ms. Calculated Miscalculated. Ms. is the title that does not say whether a woman is married.
  • Ms. Takes Were Made Mistakes were made, the classic way to admit an error without naming anybody.
  • Ms. Understandings Misunderstandings. For a table that argues about what the question meant.
  • Near Misses A near miss is an answer one letter or one digit off. No points, plenty of groaning.

Muses, queens and bluestockings 19

  • Alma Maters Alma mater is Latin for nourishing mother, and it means the school you went to.
  • Alumnae Association Alumnae is the Latin plural for women graduates.
  • Athena's Owls A little owl goes with Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom.
  • The Bluestockings After the Blue Stockings Society of mid-18th-century England. By the 1770s the word meant any learned woman.
  • Clio's Notes Clio is the Muse of history. Bring her for the history round.
  • The Distaff Side A distaff is a tool used in spinning, and the distaff side is the female side of a family.
  • Doyennes A doyenne is the senior and most respected woman of a group.
  • Grandes Dames A grande dame is a woman of high standing in her field.
  • Minerva's Table Minerva is the Roman counterpart of Athena, and the owl is her bird too.
  • Mnemosyne's Daughters Mnemosyne is Memory in person, and in Hesiod the mother of the nine Muses.
  • Mother Wit An old term for common sense, the kind nobody has to teach you.
  • The Nine Muses In Greek myth the nine Muses stand for knowledge and the arts. For a table of nine.
  • Prima Donnas Italian for first lady: the leading woman of an opera company.
  • Queenside Castle In chess, castling queenside tucks the king away on the queen's half of the board.
  • The Sibyls The sibyls were the prophetesses of ancient Greece. A team that foretells its own score.
  • The Three Fates Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, the three Fates of Greek myth. For a table of three.
  • The Three Graces The Graces of Greek myth, called the Charites in Greek. For a table of three.
  • Urania's Stargazers Urania is the Muse of astronomy.
  • Women of Letters A woman of letters is a literary woman, the counterpart of a man of letters.

How it works

These 182 trivia team names for women are sorted by who is at the table, from a moms' night out to a work team of women.

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Moms, sisters, friends or coworkers

The All team names menu holds seven groups. Moms' night out is the largest, with 40 mom trivia team names, from The Mother Lode to Lost Sock Detectives. The one few people guess is Muses, queens and bluestockings: 19 female trivia team names that double as quiz answers. The nine Muses are daughters of Mnemosyne, Memory in person, which makes Mnemosyne's Daughters a quiz team by birth.

Which names only work on paper

Most of the 23 Miss and Ms. puns are for the eye. Miss Chief and Miss Taken sound like the plain words aloud, so the joke stays on the answer sheet. If your host reads the scores out, Sisters of the Round Table, Queens of the Quiz and Yes Ma'am carry across a room.

  • A work team gets more from its department than a general pun: Ladies of the Ledger for finance, Ladies of the Lab for research.
  • Most Powerful Piece is the chess queen. Queenside Castle and Ladies' Knight are there for a table that plays.
  • The Seven Sisters, The Nine Muses and The Three Fates carry a head count, so check the table before you write one down.

Questions and answers

What are good trivia team names for girls?

Girls' night has 32 girl trivia group names for an all-girls team, such as The Know-It-Gals, She-nanigans, Queens of the Quiz and We're Usually a Book Club. All 32 are clean enough for a school or family quiz.

What are funny girl trivia team names?

Girls' Night Out of Ideas and Best Friends, Worst Guessers are funniest read out in last place. Miss Information jokes about the team's own answers, and Finally All Free the Same Night is true of most tables of friends.

What is a trivia night team name for sisters?

Sisters has 24. Sister Cities are twin towns, Sister Ships are built to one design, and The Seven Sisters is another name for the Pleiades star cluster. Mom Likes Me Best lets one sister say it to the whole room.

Is there a trivia team name for playing with mom?

Yes. With mom, daughters and aunts has 24, such as Like Mother, Like Daughter, Ask Mom, Mom Knows This One and The Aunt Farm. Mother-Daughter Doubles suits a table of two, and Three Generations, One Pencil a table with a grandmother.

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