Too much time thanking people Blatant typo Speaker mispronounces something Boring slides/no color “To piggyback off _____’s question/comment…” Cell phone goes off “Beyond the scope of this work” Technology malfunction Sleeping professor/student Someone has a "question" that's actually a comment Speaker wastes 5 minutes explaining outline Work ties in to Cancer/CVD/War/COVID- 19 Rambling/long introduction of speaker Speaker flips forward past a slide too fast for you to read it Skips over slides to save time Results conveniently show improvement Repeated use of “um…” Incomprehensible graphic (chart, graph, diagram, etc.) Someone creates excessive noise with their snacks Speaker is surprised by what appears on the next slide Speaker sucks up to host professor Speaker forgets to thank their research team Speaker tells an “amusing story” that is not related to the subject of the seminar Speaker apologizes to audience Excessive use of “um” “uh” etc. Speaker spends several minutes talking to the title slide Speaker explains something obvious Doesn’t start on time/goes over time Someone takes more snacks than they could ever eat at seminar Low resolution image(s) “That’s an interesting question” Undefined abbreviation You have no idea what’s going on Too much time thanking people Blatant typo Speaker mispronounces something Boring slides/no color “To piggyback off _____’s question/comment…” Cell phone goes off “Beyond the scope of this work” Technology malfunction Sleeping professor/student Someone has a "question" that's actually a comment Speaker wastes 5 minutes explaining outline Work ties in to Cancer/CVD/War/COVID- 19 Rambling/long introduction of speaker Speaker flips forward past a slide too fast for you to read it Skips over slides to save time Results conveniently show improvement Repeated use of “um…” Incomprehensible graphic (chart, graph, diagram, etc.) Someone creates excessive noise with their snacks Speaker is surprised by what appears on the next slide Speaker sucks up to host professor Speaker forgets to thank their research team Speaker tells an “amusing story” that is not related to the subject of the seminar Speaker apologizes to audience Excessive use of “um” “uh” etc. Speaker spends several minutes talking to the title slide Speaker explains something obvious Doesn’t start on time/goes over time Someone takes more snacks than they could ever eat at seminar Low resolution image(s) “That’s an interesting question” Undefined abbreviation You have no idea what’s going on
(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.
Too much time thanking people
Blatant typo
Speaker mispronounces something
Boring slides/no color
“To piggyback off _____’s question/comment…”
Cell phone goes off
“Beyond the scope of this work”
Technology malfunction
Sleeping professor/student
Someone has a "question" that's actually a comment
Speaker wastes 5 minutes explaining outline
Work ties in to Cancer/CVD/War/COVID-19
Rambling/long introduction of speaker
Speaker flips forward past a slide too fast for you to read it
Skips over slides to save time
Results conveniently show improvement
Repeated use of “um…”
Incomprehensible graphic (chart, graph, diagram, etc.)
Someone creates excessive noise with their snacks
Speaker is surprised by what appears on the next slide
Speaker sucks up to host professor
Speaker forgets to thank their research team
Speaker tells an “amusing story” that is not related to the subject of the seminar
Speaker apologizes to audience
Excessive use of “um” “uh” etc.
Speaker spends several minutes talking to the title slide
Speaker explains something obvious
Doesn’t start on time/goes over time
Someone takes more snacks than they could ever eat at seminar
Low resolution image(s)
“That’s an interesting question”
Undefined abbreviation
You have no idea what’s going on