Academic Team Name Generator

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Generate academic team names for quiz bowl, scholastic bowl, knowledge bowl and academic decathlon squads, from Toss-Up Titans and Honor Roll Call to Summa Cum Loud, Athena's Owls and Varsity Nerds.

About academic team names

Academic teams go by many labels: quiz bowl, scholastic bowl, knowledge bowl, brain bowl, academic challenge, academic decathlon and pentathlon. What they share is a scoresheet, a long bus ride and a team name that ends up on shirts, posters and often the bracket. All 1,000 names here are written to be school-safe, for elementary teams through college clubs.

The list is spread across styles so that rerolls feel different. Game jargon gives Toss-Up Titans, Bonus Round, Neg Five and Thriving and For Ten Points. Grade jokes give Honor Roll Call, Summa Cum Loud and The Curve Wreckers. An academic team answers on every subject, so the puns cover every subject too: The Footnotes and Carthage Must Be Answered for history, Dangling Participles and Semicolon Society for English, Latitude Attitude for geography and Going for Baroque for fine arts, with a smaller share for science and math.

There are also names from mythology and the classics (Athena's Owls, Ariadne's Thread), Latin mottoes such as Sapere Aude and Ad Astra, mascot forms like Eagle Scholars and Thinking Tigers that take your own mascot, plain proud names for shirts such as Varsity Academics, and smart-kid humor such as Varsity Nerds and Last Picked, First Place.

How to choose academic team names

  • Say it the way the moderator will. A name that is read out at a match or at the awards has to work by ear, so a pun that depends on spelling, such as Gneiss Work, lands better on a shirt than over a microphone, while Summa Cum Loud works both ways.
  • Match the name to your format. Toss-Up Titans and Thirty on the Bonus suit quiz bowl, Ten Events, One Team and The Decathletes suit a decathlon squad, and Written Round Wonders fits a knowledge bowl team.
  • Swap in your own mascot. Eagle Scholars, Thinking Tigers and Wildcat Quiz Bowl are patterns: put your school's mascot in front and the name is yours.
  • Check the entry form first. Many tournaments list teams by school and a letter, so a nickname may be for shirts, posters and the group chat only.
  • If you pick a Latin motto, know what it means. Sapere Aude is "dare to know" and Ad Astra is "to the stars", and someone at the tournament will ask.

Frequently asked questions

What is a good name for an academic team?

A good one tells people what the team does and gets a smile from the other table. Toss-Up Titans, The Know-It-Alls, Honor Roll Call and Mind Over Matter all do that. Teams that want to sound serious can take a classical name such as Athena's Owls or a plain one such as Varsity Academics.

What are some funny academic team names?

The jokes that work best are about the game or about being the smart kids: Summa Cum Loud, Neg Five and Thriving, Dewey Know It, Confer and Conquer and Suspenders of Disbelief. Self-aware names such as Varsity Nerds and Insert Clever Name Here work well on shirts because the team is in on the joke.

Are these names appropriate for school?

Yes. The list was written for students, coaches and teachers, so it leaves out alcohol jokes, innuendo and insults, which rules out most pub quiz names. The humor comes from buzzers, grades, libraries and school subjects, as in Extra Credit Union and Study Hall of Fame.

Do the names work for quiz bowl, knowledge bowl and academic decathlon?

Most are not tied to one format, so Brains of the Operation or The Primary Sources fit any of them. A smaller group uses the vocabulary of one game, such as For Ten Points for quiz bowl or Ten Out of Ten and All Ten Events for a decathlon team. The names are general ideas and are not connected to any competition or organizer.

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A: 58 names

  • A for Effort
  • A Plus Attitude
  • A Tale of Two Buzzers
  • A Tempo
  • Above Grade Level
  • Absolute Zero Wrong Answers
  • Academic All-Stars
  • Academic Alliance
  • Academic Challengers
  • Academic Edge
  • Academic Elite
  • Academic Excellence
  • Academic Letter Winners
  • Accept Either Answer
  • Achilles' Healed
  • Ad Astra
  • Ad Hoc Committee
  • Ad Infinitum
  • Advanced Standing
  • After School Special
  • Age of Reason
  • Alea Iacta Est
  • All of the Above
  • All Roads Lead to Us
  • All Ten Events
  • All the Answers
  • All's Well That Ends Well
  • Allegro Answers
  • Alliteration Nation

A, continued

  • Alma Mater's Finest
  • Almanac Attack
  • Alps to the Top
  • Alternates on Deck
  • Anansi's Stories
  • Ancient History
  • Andes Altitude
  • Annus Mirabilis
  • Answer Authority
  • Answer in Question Form
  • Answers on Demand
  • Apex Learners
  • Apollo's Oracles
  • Appendix B
  • Archimedes' Bathtub
  • Archipelago Go
  • Ariadne's Thread
  • Aristotle's Walkers
  • Ars Longa
  • Art of the Answer
  • Ask Us Anything
  • At Our Wits' Beginning
  • Athena's Aegis
  • Athena's Owls
  • Athletes of the Mind
  • Atlas Flippers
  • Atlas Shruggers
  • Atlas Unburdened
  • Austen's Persuaders

B: 53 names

  • Babbage's Blueprint
  • Bach to Basics
  • Bach to the Future
  • Banner Year
  • Baroque and Roll
  • Battle of Wits
  • Bear Knowledge Bowl
  • Beat the Clock
  • Beautiful Minds
  • Bedtime Is Nine
  • Bell Ringers
  • Bench Depth
  • Benched in Dodgeball
  • Beowulf Pack
  • Bison Brain Trust
  • Blast from the Past
  • Blue Jay Brain Bowl
  • Blue Ribbon Panel
  • Bobcat Brainiacs
  • Bobcat Scholars
  • Bona Fide Scholars
  • Bonded for Life
  • Bonus Bandits
  • Bonus Conversion Crew
  • Bonus Hunters
  • Bonus Round

B, continued

  • Book Smart Bears
  • Bookish and Proud
  • Born to Buzz
  • Bounceback Bonus
  • Bow Ties and Buzzers
  • Bowl Bound
  • Bowl Season
  • Bowling for Answers
  • Bracket Brainiacs
  • Brain Bowl Bunch
  • Brain Freeze Survivors
  • Brain Power Plant
  • Brain Wave Riders
  • Brainiacs on Board
  • Brains of the Operation
  • Brainstorm Warning
  • Brainy Bulldogs
  • Bronte Force
  • Bronze Age Brains
  • Brown Bag Brainpower
  • Brush with Greatness
  • Brushstrokes of Genius
  • Bull Market Brains
  • Bulldog Brain Bowl
  • Buzzer Before Breakfast
  • Buzzer Brigade
  • Byzantine Thinkers

C: 82 names

  • Cafeteria Table Twelve
  • Calculator Watch Crew
  • Call Us Ishmael
  • Cap and Gown
  • Cape of Good Hope
  • Capital Gains
  • Capital Idea
  • Captain and Crew
  • Captain's Call
  • Carbon Copies
  • Card Catalog Crew
  • Cardigan Corps
  • Cardinal Scholars
  • Carpe Buzzer
  • Carpe Diem
  • Carthage Must Be Answered
  • Cassandra Was Right
  • Categorically Correct
  • Category Kings and Queens
  • Category Sweepers
  • Cell Division
  • Centaur of Attention
  • Certified Bookworms
  • Cervantes' Windmills
  • Chalk Dust
  • Chalk Talk
  • Challenge Accepted

C, continued

  • Challenge Champions
  • Chaucer's Pilgrims
  • Check Your Answers
  • Checked Out and Checked In
  • Checks and Balances
  • Chiaroscuro Crew
  • Children of Athena
  • Chiron's Students
  • Chopin Spree
  • Chronic Overachievers
  • Citius Altius Fortius
  • Civics Lesson
  • Class Act
  • Class Dismissed
  • Class in Session
  • Class Rank Climbers
  • Clean Sweep the Bonus
  • Clever by Half
  • Clever Clogs
  • Clio's Chroniclers
  • Co-Valedictorians
  • Coach's Minivan
  • Coda Breakers
  • Code of Hammurabi
  • Cogito Ergo Buzz
  • Cogito Ergo Sum
  • Collective Nouns

C, continued

  • Color-Coded Notes
  • Colt Academic Team
  • Comet Quiz Bowl
  • Compass Rose Brigade
  • Complementary Colors
  • Complete Sentences
  • Confer and Conquer
  • Conference Contenders
  • Continental Divide
  • Continental Drifters
  • Continuing Education
  • Contour Lines
  • Copernicus Was Right
  • Core Curriculum
  • Cougar Quiz Squad
  • Covalent Bonds
  • Credit Where It's Due
  • Cross Curricular
  • Crossing the Rubicon
  • Cubist Thinkers
  • Cum Laude and Proud
  • Curators of Facts
  • Curie's Glow
  • Curie's Lab Notes
  • Curious Cougars
  • Curious Minds Club
  • Current Events Crew
  • Curriculum Vitae

D: 34 names

  • Da Capo
  • Da Vinci's Notebook
  • Daedalus Designs
  • Dangling Participles
  • Dante's Circle
  • Danube Blues
  • Darwin's Notebook
  • Decathlon Dream Team
  • Decathlon Dynasty
  • Decimal Places
  • Deep Thoughts Division
  • Degas Dancers
  • Delta Force of Nature
  • Deus Ex Machina
  • Dewey Decimal Devotees
  • Dewey Have a Chance
  • Dewey Know It
  • Dickens of a Team
  • Dictionary Divers
  • Did the Homework
  • Did the Reading
  • Did You Know
  • Diploma Seekers
  • District Dominators
  • Docendo Discimus
  • Doctors of Philosophy
  • Dominant Traits
  • Double Elimination Daredevils
  • Double Majors
  • Dragon Decathletes
  • Dragon Scholars
  • Dramatic Irony
  • Dry Erase Aces
  • Dynasty Dynamos

E: 24 names

  • E Pluribus Unum
  • Eagle Scholars
  • Early Buzzers Club
  • Easy A's
  • Edison's Bulbs
  • Eighth Wonder of the World
  • Electoral Collegiates
  • Elements of Surprise
  • Elysian Fields
  • Epic Poets
  • Equator Raiders
  • Errare Humanum Est
  • Essay Aces
  • Et Cetera
  • Euclid's Homework
  • Eureka in the Bathtub
  • Eureka Squad
  • Everest Climbers
  • Ex Libris
  • Ex Nihilo
  • Excelsior
  • Experts in Residence
  • Extra Credit
  • Extra Credit Union

F: 46 names

  • Fact Check
  • Fact Pack
  • Fact-Finding Falcons
  • Factor of Ten
  • Facts First
  • Falcon Scholars
  • Fertile Crescent Rolls
  • Festina Lente
  • Feudal Attempt
  • Feudal System Failure
  • Fibonacci Sequence Fans
  • Field Trip Chaperones
  • Fifth Grade Phenoms
  • Fifty Nifty Thinkers
  • Fill in the Bubble
  • Final Answer Faction
  • Final Relay Heroes
  • Finals Week Warriors
  • Fine Arts and Crafty
  • Fire of Prometheus
  • Firing on All Neurons
  • First Hand Up
  • First on the Signal

F, continued

  • First Person Plural
  • First Place Finishers
  • Five Event Phenoms
  • Five Seconds to Confer
  • Fjord Focus
  • Fjord Thinkers
  • Flying Buttresses
  • Food for Thought
  • For Ten Points
  • For Ten Points, Name Us
  • Foreshadowing Victory
  • Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat
  • Fortissimo Force
  • Fossil Record Holders
  • Founding Thinkers
  • Four at the Table
  • Four Point Oh
  • Franklin's Kite
  • Friends, Romans, Classmates
  • Front of the Class
  • Front Page News
  • Front Row Seats
  • Fun Fact Machines

G: 35 names

  • Galileo's Pendulum
  • Galileo's Stargazers
  • Gallery Regulars
  • Geek Chic
  • Geeks of the Week
  • General Knowledge Generals
  • Genius at Work
  • Genius Hour
  • Glasses Half Full
  • Globe Theater Groundlings
  • Glossary Glory
  • Gneiss Work
  • Gobi or Go Home
  • Gogh for the Gold
  • Going for Baroque
  • Gold Medal Minds
  • Golden Bear Academics
  • Golden Eagle Scholars
  • Golden Fleece Finders
  • Golden Mean Machine
  • Gothic Arches
  • GPA Guardians
  • Grade A Material
  • Grade Expectations
  • Graded on a Curve
  • Grand Staff
  • Granola Bar Fueled
  • Great Lakes Greats
  • Great Minds Think Alike
  • Great Wall of Knowledge
  • Greater Than Symbols
  • Green Light Gang
  • Greenwich Mean Team
  • Grendel's Bane
  • Gutenberg's Press Gang

H: 48 names

  • Haiku Ninjas
  • Half-Life of the Party
  • Hall Pass Heroes
  • Hall Pass Holders
  • Halley's Comets
  • Hamlet's Soliloquy
  • Hammurabi's Coders
  • Hand Raisers
  • Handel with Care
  • Hanging Gardeners
  • Hannibal's Elephants
  • Hawk Academic Challenge
  • Haydn Seek
  • Head of the Class
  • Headline Readers
  • Heads Up, Hands Down
  • Herculean Effort
  • Here Comes Treble
  • Hermes Express
  • Herodotus' Histories
  • Hieroglyph Decoders
  • High Honors
  • High IQ, Low Profile
  • Higher Education

H, continued

  • Higher Learning
  • Highlighter Hoarders
  • Himalayan Heights
  • History Buffs and Polish
  • History in the Making
  • Hola Honor Roll
  • Homer's Epics
  • Homes for the Lakes
  • Homework First
  • Homework Heroes
  • Honor Code
  • Honor Roll Call
  • Honors Everything
  • Honors Track
  • Honors, Scholastic, Varsity
  • Hope at the Bottom
  • Hornet Quiz Bowl
  • Hornet Scholars
  • Hot Seat Heroes
  • Huginn and Muninn
  • Hydra Heads Together
  • Hyperbole Bowl
  • Hypothesis Confirmed
  • Hysterical Historians

I: 27 names

  • I Knew That One
  • Iambic Pentameter Pals
  • Ibid
  • If It Ain't Baroque
  • Igneous Is Bliss
  • Impromptu Experts
  • Index Card Sharks
  • Indoor Kids
  • Industrial Revolutionaries
  • Ink and Insight
  • Insert Clever Name Here
  • Intellect Collective
  • Interdisciplinary Studies
  • International Date Liners
  • Interrupt Correctly
  • Interview Ready
  • Invisible Handshake
  • Ionic Bonders
  • Iron Age Intellects
  • Irony Curtain
  • Irrational but Correct
  • Isthmus Be the Place
  • It Was on the Tip of My Tongue
  • It's on the Syllabus
  • Itchy Buzzer Thumbs
  • Ivory Tower Climbers
  • Ivy Climbers

J: 5 names

  • Jack of All Subjects
  • Jaguar Brain Bowl
  • Junior Geniuses
  • Junior Varsity Genius
  • Just the Facts

K: 14 names

  • Keepers of the Flame
  • Kepler's Laws
  • Kepler's Orbiters
  • Key Signature
  • Kinder Thinkers
  • Kinetic Scholars
  • Knight Scholars
  • Knights of Knowledge
  • Know Thyself
  • Knowledge Bowl Regulars
  • Knowledge Corps
  • Knowledge Is Power
  • Knowledge Keepers
  • Knowledge Seekers United

L: 38 names

  • Lab Partners for Life
  • Labor Omnia Vincit
  • Labyrinth Runners
  • Laminated Flash Cards
  • Lamp of Learning
  • Lamplighters
  • Last Picked, First Place
  • Lasting Impressionists
  • Late Bus Legends
  • Latitude Attitude
  • Laurel Wreath
  • Laurels Earned
  • Law of Supply
  • Lead-In Listeners
  • League of Learners
  • Learned Lions
  • Lecture Series
  • Left Brains, Right Answers
  • Legend and Key
  • Lesson Learned
  • Lesson Plan
  • Lettered in Learning
  • Liberal Arts Majors
  • Library Card Carriers
  • Lifelong Learners
  • Light-Years Ahead
  • Linnaeus Listers
  • Lion Scholars
  • Liszt of Champions
  • Locker Combination
  • Loki's Loopholes
  • Longhorn Learners
  • Longitude Legends
  • Lost in the Stacks
  • Lunar Phases
  • Lunch Table Scholars
  • Lux et Veritas
  • Lynx to Knowledge

M: 51 names

  • Magna Carta Holders
  • Magna Cum Awesome
  • Magna Cum Laude
  • Magnetic North
  • Magnum Opus
  • Major Scale
  • Making the Grade
  • Map Reading Crew
  • Marathon to Athens
  • Marble Minds
  • Market Forces
  • Mass Times Acceleration
  • Masters of All Trades
  • Match Point Minds
  • Mathletes and Then Some
  • Medal Count
  • Meeting of the Minds
  • Memory Lane Runners
  • Mens Sana
  • Mental Gymnasts
  • Mercury Rising
  • Mesopotamia Mia
  • Michelangelo's Ceiling
  • Midterm Elections
  • Mimir's Well

M, continued

  • Mind Over Matter
  • Mind Readers
  • Mind the Gap
  • Minds in Motion
  • Minds Wide Open
  • Minerva's Scholars
  • Minerva's Shield
  • Minor in Everything
  • Minor Key Players
  • Mississippi Spellers
  • Mixed Metaphors
  • Mnemosyne's Daughters
  • Mona Lisa Smilers
  • Monet Makers
  • Morning Announcements
  • Mortarboard Tossers
  • Mostly Guessing
  • Mount Olympus Summit
  • Mount Rushmore Faces
  • Mouth of the River
  • Much Ado About Knowing
  • Multiple Choice
  • Muses of Memory
  • Museum Quality
  • Mustang Academic Squad
  • Mustang Minds

N: 21 names

  • Name Pending Review
  • Ne Plus Ultra
  • Neg Five and Thriving
  • Nerd Alert
  • Neuron Fire
  • Never Flat
  • Nevermore Wrong
  • New School of Thought
  • Newton's Apple Pickers
  • Night Owl Scholars
  • Nil Desperandum
  • Nile Navigators
  • Nine Strong
  • No Achilles' Heel
  • No Negs Allowed
  • No-Brainers
  • Noble Gas Nobility
  • None of the Above
  • Not Here for Gym Class
  • Nota Bene
  • Number Two Pencils

O: 27 names

  • Ode to Joy
  • Odin's Ravens
  • Odyssey Crew
  • Oedipus Answered Right
  • Off the Map
  • Office Hours
  • On the Map
  • Onomatopoeia Pow
  • Op Cit
  • Open Book Test
  • Open Minds
  • Opportunity Cost
  • Opus One
  • Oracle of Delphi
  • Oral Round Roar
  • Orbit Achievers
  • Order of Operations Crew
  • Oregon Trail Survivors
  • Our Coach Made Us Pick
  • Out of the Labyrinth
  • Outliers on Purpose
  • Overdue Books
  • Overhead Projectors
  • Overlapping Circles
  • Overthinkers Club
  • Overtime Toss-Ups
  • Owl Academic Team

P: 62 names

  • Packet Devourers
  • Pandora's Answer Box
  • Pangaea Reunion
  • Panther Scholastic Bowl
  • Parlez-Vous Points
  • Parts of Speech
  • Pass with Flying Colors
  • Past Masters
  • Past Perfect
  • Pasteur's Flask
  • Patriot Scholars
  • Peace of Mind
  • Peak Performance
  • Peer Reviewers
  • Pencils Down, Buzzers Up
  • Penelope's Weavers
  • Pentathlon Pride
  • Per Aspera Ad Astra
  • Perfect Attendance
  • Perfect Pitch
  • Perfect Score Corps
  • Periodic Table of Contents
  • Permission Slips
  • Perspective Shift
  • Pharaoh Enough
  • Phoenix Academic Team
  • Photographic Memories
  • Pick Me, Pick Me
  • Pint-Sized Professors
  • Pioneer Academic Team
  • Pirate Academic Crew

P, continued

  • Plate Tectonics Club
  • Plutarch's Lives
  • Poe's Ravens
  • Poetic Justice
  • Points on the Board
  • Pomp and Circumstance
  • Pondering Panthers
  • Pop Culture, Pop Quiz
  • Pop Quiz Panic
  • Pop Quiz Pros
  • Popular Vote
  • Portable Classroom Posse
  • Post Scriptum
  • Potpourri for a Thousand
  • Powerhouse of the Cell
  • Preamble Ramblers
  • Present Company Included
  • Presto Thinkers
  • Pride of the School
  • Prima Facie Correct
  • Primary Colors
  • Printing Press Pass
  • Pro Bono Brains
  • Progress Report
  • Prometheus Unbound
  • Prompt on Partial
  • Proper Nouns
  • Proud to Be Nerdy
  • Pursuit of Knowledge
  • Pythagoras' Posse
  • Pythagorean Theorists

Q: 10 names

  • Quest for Knowledge
  • Question Everything
  • Question Set Go
  • Quick on the Clicker
  • Quick Wits
  • Quiet Kids, Loud Scores
  • Quiet Please
  • Quill and Parchment
  • Quiz Bowl Royalty
  • Quiz Kids Forever

R: 38 names

  • Raider Academic Team
  • Raise the Banner
  • Raise Your Hand
  • Ram Academic Team
  • Random Facts Department
  • Read the Whole Question
  • Rebel Scholars
  • Recess Is Over
  • Recess Researchers
  • Recognized by the Moderator
  • Reflex Scholars
  • Regional Champs in Waiting
  • Relay Round Squad
  • Rembrandt's Light
  • Renaissance Polymaths
  • Renewed Twice
  • Report Card Royalty
  • Rest Is History
  • Resting on No Laurels
  • Rhodes Less Traveled
  • Riddle of the Sphinx
  • Ring In and Win
  • Ring of Fire Alarm
  • Rising Action
  • Road to State
  • Roaring Twenties
  • Rock Cycle Riders
  • Rocket Scholars
  • Rococo Rebels
  • Rodin's Thinkers
  • Roman Numeral One
  • Room 204 Regulars
  • Rosetta Stone Readers
  • Round by Round
  • Round Characters
  • Round One Ready
  • Round Robin Rulers
  • Rubric Rulers

S: 82 names

  • Safety Goggles On
  • Saga Tellers
  • Sapere Aude
  • Savanna Scholars
  • Saved by the Bell
  • Saw It in a Packet
  • Scale of Miles
  • Scholar Eagles
  • Scholars in Residence
  • Scholastic Bowl Patrol
  • Scholastic Standouts
  • Scholastic Storm
  • School of Thought
  • Scientia Potentia Est
  • Scientific Method Actors
  • Scribes of Seshat
  • Scroll Keepers
  • Second Thoughts
  • Secondary Sources
  • Sedimentary, My Dear Watson
  • Semicolon Society
  • Seminar Stars
  • Semper Paratus
  • Senate and People
  • Sentence Fragments
  • Setting the Curve
  • Seurat's Dots

S, continued

  • Seven Continents
  • Seven Seas Scholars
  • Seventh Period Stretch
  • Shakespeare's Quills
  • Shark Scholastic Team
  • Sharp as Tacks
  • Sharp-Eyed Hawks
  • Shhh Squad
  • Show Me the Monet
  • Show Your Work
  • Signers of the Declaration
  • Significant Figures
  • Silent Reading Riot
  • Sine Qua Non
  • Sisyphus Rolling
  • Six A.M. Bus Call
  • Sixth Period Scholars
  • Sixty Seconds on the Clock
  • Smart Alecks
  • Smarter Than We Look
  • Snack Table Strategists
  • Socrates' Questioners
  • Sonnet Boom
  • Spartan Scholars
  • Speed of Light Readers
  • Speed Round Specialists
  • Square Roots Rock

S, continued

  • Starry Night Owls
  • Starting Four
  • State Capital Collectors
  • State of Mind
  • State of the Art
  • Status Quo Breakers
  • Steep Learning Curve
  • Sticker Chart Champions
  • Still Deciding on a Name
  • Still Life Scholars
  • Strait and Narrow
  • Strait Answers
  • Studious Spartans
  • Study Guide Guild
  • Study Hall Monitors
  • Study Hall of Fame
  • Study Hall Stars
  • Subject Matter Experts
  • Subject Verb Agreement
  • Sudden Victory
  • Summa Cum Laude
  • Summa Cum Loud
  • Supernova Scholars
  • Supply and Demand
  • Survival of the Smartest
  • Suspenders of Disbelief
  • Sweater Vest Society
  • Symphony of Smarts

T: 187 names

  • Tabula Rasa No More
  • Take Home Test
  • Tardy Bell Beaters
  • Tassel Turners
  • Teacher's Lounge Legends
  • Teaching Assistants
  • Team Curiosity
  • Team Encyclopedia
  • Team Excellence
  • Team Hypatia
  • Team Insight
  • Team Intellect
  • Team Logic
  • Team of Nine
  • Team Thesaurus
  • Technically Correct
  • Tempus Fugit
  • Ten Events, One Team
  • Ten Out of Ten
  • Tenured Faculty
  • Terra Firma
  • Terra Incognita
  • The A Team
  • The Abridged Version
  • The Academic Order
  • The Amendments
  • The Answer Key
  • The Argonauts
  • The Bard's Brigade
  • The Bibliography Brigade
  • The Brain Drain
  • The Buzz Cut
  • The Buzz Saws
  • The Canterbury Tellers
  • The Carpool Lane
  • The Cartographers
  • The Challengers

T, continued

  • The Cognoscenti
  • The Color Wheel
  • The Commencement Speakers
  • The Common Factors
  • The Correct Response
  • The Crescendos
  • The Curve Wreckers
  • The Dead Sea Scrollers
  • The Dean's List
  • The Decathletes
  • The Denouement
  • The Dissertation Committee
  • The Docents
  • The Early Buzz
  • The Encyclopedias
  • The Enlightened Ones
  • The Erudites
  • The Extra Mile
  • The Fact Factory
  • The Fact Finders
  • The Fast Fingers
  • The Federalist Papers
  • The Fellows
  • The Fifth Symphony
  • The Final Exam
  • The Flag Wavers
  • The Food Chain Toppers
  • The Footnotes
  • The Four Hemispheres
  • The Frescoes
  • The Generalists
  • The Giveaway Clue
  • The Globe Spinners
  • The Gold Rushers
  • The Gordian Knot Cutters
  • The Gray Matter Gang
  • The Honor Society

T, continued

  • The Huddle Whisperers
  • The Iambs
  • The Impressionists
  • The Inquiring Minds
  • The Integers
  • The Intellects
  • The Intelligentsia
  • The IQ Crew
  • The Know-It-Alls
  • The Knowledge Bank
  • The Last Chapter
  • The Late Bus Regulars
  • The Lettered League
  • The Lockout System
  • The Long Way to Ithaca
  • The Lost Continent
  • The Louisiana Purchasers
  • The Mastermind Alliance
  • The Mental Giants
  • The New Dealers
  • The Nine Muses
  • The Old Masters
  • The Overprepared
  • The Packet Pack
  • The Peninsulas
  • The Pentathletes
  • The Peripatetics
  • The Phenoms
  • The Pointillists
  • The Polymaths
  • The Praetorian Guard
  • The Primary Sources
  • The Prime Meridians
  • The Prodigies
  • The Professors Emeriti
  • The Protagonists
  • The Rebound Squad
  • The Renaissance Kids

T, continued

  • The Right Answers
  • The River Deltas
  • The Run-On Sentences
  • The Sages
  • The Salutatorians
  • The Scarlet Letter A's
  • The Sculpture Garden
  • The Seven Wonders
  • The Sharp Pencils
  • The Silk Roaders
  • The Similes
  • The Sixty Second Round
  • The Sphinx's Riddlers
  • The Split Infinitives
  • The Surrealists
  • The Syllabus Readers
  • The Synapse Snaps
  • The Thinking Caps
  • The Tributaries
  • The Twelve Labors
  • The Water Cycle
  • Theory of Everything Else
  • Think Again
  • Think Fast
  • Think Tank Engines
  • Thinking Cap Collective
  • Thinking Tigers
  • Third Line Thumbs
  • Thirteenth Labor
  • Thirty on the Bonus
  • Thoth's Scribes
  • Thought Bubbles
  • Three Branches
  • Three Fifteen Club
  • Three Part Bonus
  • Thucydides' Students
  • Thumbs of Thunder

T, continued

  • Thunderbird Scholars
  • Tiebreaker Toss-Up
  • Tiger Academic Team
  • Tilting at Windmills
  • Time Signature
  • Time Zone Travelers
  • Time's Up Titans
  • Titan Academic Team
  • Titans of Thought
  • To Boldly Split Infinitives
  • To Buzz or Not to Buzz
  • Too Cool for Recess
  • Too Many Tabs Open
  • Top Marks
  • Top of Mind
  • Top of the Class
  • Top Ten Percent
  • Topographic Mappers
  • Torch and Laurel
  • Toss-Up Titans
  • Toss-Up Tornadoes
  • Total Recall Crew
  • Trailblazer Scholars
  • Train of Thought
  • Transcontinental Thinkers
  • Tree of Knowledge
  • Trojan Academic Bowl
  • Trojan Horse Builders
  • Trojan Scholars
  • Trophy Shelf Fillers
  • Tropic of Capricorn Crew
  • True North
  • Truth Seekers
  • Trying Our Best
  • Tundra Thunder
  • Tut Tut
  • Twain's Marks
  • Type A Positive

U: 7 names

  • Um, Actually
  • Unabridged
  • Undeclared Majors
  • Unreliable Narrators
  • Ural Winners
  • Urania's Stargazers
  • Useless Knowledge

V: 18 names

  • Valedictorians in Training
  • Valhalla Bound
  • Van Gogh Getters
  • Vanishing Point
  • Varsity Academics
  • Varsity Knowledge
  • Varsity Nerds
  • Vending Machine Scholars
  • Veni Vidi Vici
  • Verb Conjugators
  • Veritas
  • Vermeer's Pearls
  • Vice Versa
  • Viking Academic Team
  • Virgil's Guides
  • Visiting Scholars
  • Vitruvian Minds
  • Vox Populi

W: 31 names

  • Wait for the Clue
  • Wait, I Know This
  • Walking Encyclopedias
  • Warrior Scholars
  • We Actually Studied
  • We Like Homework
  • We Peaked in Spelling
  • We Read the Footnotes
  • We Thought It Was Tuesday
  • Well Read and Ready
  • Well Rounded
  • Well-Read Vikings
  • When in Rome
  • Whiteboard Warriors
  • Whole Brain Thinking
  • Wild Guesses
  • Wildcat Quiz Bowl
  • Wildcat Scholars
  • Winged Sandals
  • Wings of Icarus, Fixed
  • Wisdom Council
  • With Distinction
  • Wits About Us
  • Wolf Pack Scholars
  • Wolverine Academic Team
  • Wonder Kids
  • Words of Wisdom
  • Working Theory
  • Works Cited
  • World Capitals Club
  • Written Round Wonders

Y: 1 name

  • Yggdrasil Roots

Z: 1 name

  • Zero Hour Heroes