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