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