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