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