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