# Need name for team at 1920's themed trivia night **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 15, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089 "2012-11-15T15:21:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/1 "2012-11-15T15:21:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Cryptic\_C62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cryptic\_C62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cryptic_C62)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/2 "2012-11-15T15:34:59Z")
Swingin’ Things The Flappers Transatlantic As Long as It’s Black Don Juan and the Talkies ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/3 "2012-11-15T15:54:14Z")
The Prohibitions The Roaring Twentysomethings The Speakeasies The Flagpole Sitters The Spirit of St. Louis The Lindy Hoppers ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/4 "2012-11-15T15:55:52Z")
Um, this is the Straight Dope… The only choice you have is “The 1920s Style Death Rays” ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/5 "2012-11-15T16:00:26Z")
The 1920’s Style Death Rays has a fond place in my heart, but it’s a little long, I think 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/6 "2012-11-15T16:15:31Z")
Go in really drab outfits (and get all the questions right, natch!) and call yourselves “The Boring '20s”. Or how about “23 Skidoo”? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/7 "2012-11-15T16:18:04Z")
Jitter Buggers. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/8 "2012-11-15T16:40:33Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/9 "2012-11-15T17:30:24Z")
The Scandalous Teapot Domes Steamboat Willies Sacco, Vanzetti, and the lawyers those nice young men should have had ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/10 "2012-11-15T17:47:08Z")
The Wall Street Kvetch ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/11 "2012-11-15T18:35:43Z")
The Charleston Jews ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/12 "2012-11-15T20:44:03Z")
The Gum Flappers Sleepin’ With the Fishes, See? Al Capowned The Swingin’ Swingers ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/13 "2012-11-15T21:40:40Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Um, this is the Straight Dope… The only choice you have is “The 1920s Style Death Rays” Yes, I was going to suggest “Death Rays” too. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/14 "2012-11-15T22:02:50Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Yes, I was going to suggest “Death Rays” too. Famous Original Death Rays ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/15 "2012-11-16T00:20:54Z")
“The Great Gatsbys” Jay Gatsby was surmised to be a Jew by some readers of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/16 "2012-11-16T00:33:35Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > The Charleston Jews Very nice! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/17 "2012-11-16T00:45:53Z")
(Oh, and do the 70s next time so you can be Parliamensch Funkadelic 🙂 .) ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/18 "2012-11-16T02:45:42Z")
> [@K364](#): > > “The Great Gatsbys” > > Jay Gatsby was surmised to be a Jew by some readers of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic. I dropped in to suggest The Great Guessby’s. Okay, too much of a stretch. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/19 "2012-11-16T03:23:14Z")
Art and the Decos ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-name-for-team-at-1920s-themed-trivia-night/641089/20 "2012-11-16T03:45:16Z")
Nan Brittanica