Interview Season 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. Applicant wearing glasses
2. Applicant "name drops" resident
3. Applicant forgets name of program
4. Applicant does magic (instant bingo if they perform trick )
5. Everyone is muted in main zoom room
6. Applicant takes drink of water/coffee/etc.
7. App
   Applicant asks how your day is going
8. Applicant wearing any color other than blue/black/white
9. Awkward silence in main Zoom room
10. Asks about research opportunities
11. Applicant comes from West Coast
12. Blue Blazer/coat
13. Struggles with moving to breakout room
14. Applicant asks about something on faculty member's online bio/pubmed
15. Applicant "name drops" faculty member
16. Pet or child interrupts interview
17. Applicant mentions awkward silence in main room and offers to break it.
18. Applicant has headphones/earbuds
19. Applicant asks about/mentions Mardi Gras
20. Applicant mentions COVID Vaccine
21. Applicant temporarily turns off video
22. Picture of pet in background
23. Applicant has never been to Mobile
24. Awkward silence during interview/breakout room
25. Applicant is your least favorite
26. Applicant references significant other
27. Screen shakes constantly
28. Applicant coughs
29. Bookshelf in background
30. 3 lamps in background
31. Applicant asks about work/life balance
32. Applicant catches you playing interview bingo
33. Applicant is calling from another time zone
34. Digitally added background
35. Applicant mentions relative/friend who lives in Mobile
36. One lamp in background
37. Applicant has driven through Mobile, but never stayed for any significant time
38. Self-created artwork in background
39. Interview concludes before scheduled time
40. Lame joke about 2020
41. Camera positioned like this
42. Nothing in Background
43. Applicant asks about "unique characteristic" of program that they are missing due to virtual interviews
44. Applicant forgets interviewers name/calls them wrong name
45. Black blazer/coat
46. Applicant is your favorite
47. Zoom Connectivity issue
48. Asks about "life in Mobile"
49. Applicant smiles continuously/ frequently :)
50. Applicant never/rarely smiles :|
51. Interview ends automatically while applicant is in mid-sent...
52. Two lamps in background
53. Applicant references life "pre-COVID"
54. Applicant comes from Midwest