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