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