Seminar 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. "Future work will …"
2. Slide with far too much information
3. "The data clearly shows"
4. At least 2 graduate students leave
5. Obvious typo
6. Cell phone goes off
7. Repeated use of “um”, “er”,…
8. Speaker forgets to thank coauthors or collaborators
9. Speaker flips back through several slides
10. Speaker spends several minutes on outline slide
11. Entire slide filled with equations
12. "That is an interesting question"
13. Speaker sucks up to host professor
14. Speaker is too quiet to hear
15. Speaker is surprised by what appears on the next slide
16. No contact details
17. Speaker reads out exactly what is on the slide
18. Sign up sheet does not get passed around
19. Skips over slides to save time
20. Somebody asks a question that is really a comment
21. Incomprehensible graphic (chart, graph, diagram,…)
22. No eye contact from speaker
23. "Beyond the scope of this work."
24. Work tied into the latest buzz words in field
25. Image or diagram too small
26. Somebody is nodding off
27. Signal to noise is mentioned
28. Laptop malfunction
29. You get lost before the talk is half finished
30. Picks up the pointing stick