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