My synagogue runs an annual team trivia night, with twenty ten-person teams competing to identify different flavors of toothpaste dabbed on a plate while completing the next words of a song that cuts off in the middle and solving a crossword puzzle at the same time. (Or matching Jewish scholarly works with their authors, identifying movie clips, and correctly naming all of the parks of Manhattan on an unlabeled map.) It’s done in formal dress, and is probably the most fun event we have all year. Anyway, this year’s event has a 1920’s theme, and my group is stumped for team names. You folks are excellent at this. Any ideas? We’re all young (27-35) Orthodox professionals, as is (are?) pretty much everybody else as this function. Bonus points for funny, but not too risque, names with a 1920’s inspiration.
Swingin’ Things
The Flappers
Transatlantic
As Long as It’s Black
Don Juan and the Talkies
The Prohibitions
The Roaring Twentysomethings
The Speakeasies
The Flagpole Sitters
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Lindy Hoppers
Um, this is the Straight Dope… The only choice you have is “The 1920s Style Death Rays”
The 1920’s Style Death Rays has a fond place in my heart, but it’s a little long, I think
Go in really drab outfits (and get all the questions right, natch!) and call yourselves “The Boring '20s”.
Or how about “23 Skidoo”?
Jitter Buggers.
The Speakeasies
The Hebrew Jeebies (spin off of heebie-jeebies, phrase of the time)
Makin’ Whoopee
The Swells
Cat’s Pajamas (all of you show up in pajamas)
The un-Real McCoys
The Scandalous Teapot Domes
Steamboat Willies
Sacco, Vanzetti, and the lawyers those nice young men should have had
The Wall Street Kvetch
The Charleston Jews
The Gum Flappers
Sleepin’ With the Fishes, See?
Al Capowned
The Swingin’ Swingers
Yes, I was going to suggest “Death Rays” too.
Famous Original Death Rays
“The Great Gatsbys”
Jay Gatsby was surmised to be a Jew by some readers of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic.
Very nice!
(Oh, and do the 70s next time so you can be Parliamensch Funkadelic .)
I dropped in to suggest The Great Guessby’s.
Okay, too much of a stretch.
Art and the Decos
Nan Brittanica