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