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