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