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