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