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