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