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