Bad History Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. MLA instead of CMS
2. summary instead of analysis
3. misspells own name
4. essay just strung-together quotes
5. describes monograph as a "novel"
6. mixed up "affect" and "effect"
7. "I really enjoyed this book"
8. terrible internet source
9. thesis: same but different
10. rampant apostrophe abuse
11. argument ignores basic chronology
12. plagiarism
13. essay or paper is laughably short
14. stilted introduction of quote
15. "in today's society"
16. unhelpful modern comparison
17. thesaurus abuse
18. "throughout history"
19. no bibliography
20. "back then" or "in those times"
21. "were known as"
22. "the dictionary defines x as..."
23. religious opinion as historical fact
24. misspells topic of paper