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