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