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