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