"A Christmas Carol" Bingo - Call List

(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.

1. Thackeray praises "A Christmas Carol" as a national benefit.
2. Dickens couldn't control the multiple adaptations and dramatizations of the Carol.
3. The second parliamentary report is about the Employment of Women and Children.
4. Dickens reads a Government report in 1843.
5. Dickens composes "A Christmas Carol" in a frenzy while walking through the streets of London.
6. Scrooge sees his own grave in the vision from the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
7. Dickens wants to "strike the heaviest blow" for the victims of the Industrial Revolution.
8. The Ghost of Christmas Present shows the poor clerk Bob Cratchit's home life.
9. Dickens is "perfectly stricken down" by the report.
10. John Leech, the illustrator, adds factory chimneys in the background of the illustration of Ignorance and Want.
11. The Ghost of Christmas Present is depicted as a great, jolly giant surrounded by festive food.
12. The three spirits are introduced: Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future.
13. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge a bleak and desolate death.
14. Scrooge expresses concern for Tiny Tim's well-being to the Ghost of Christmas Present.
15. The Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge scenes of family happiness during Christmas.
16. Scrooge's engagement and his transformation into a miser are revealed by the Ghost of Christmas Past.
17. The idea of writing a story instead of an article is conceived in Manchester.
18. Dickens describes the conception of Scrooge's character as a combination of "screw and gouge."
19. Scrooge is described as the ultimate miser and loner.
20. Bob Cratchit is paid starvation wages of 15 shillings a week.
21. The powerful illustration of Ignorance and Want is discussed.
22. Tiny Tim, the crippled child, is introduced in Bob Cratchit's family.
23. The Ghost of Christmas Present hints at a potential outbreak of revolution with the depiction of Ignorance and Want.
24. John Leech is the illustrator for "A Christmas Carol."
25. Scrooge's conversion happens in one night on Christmas Eve.
26. The Ghost of Christmas Past shows scenes from Scrooge's childhood and young manhood.
27. Dickens wants the book to be attractive with hand-painted illustrations.