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