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