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Animal-Vegetable-Mineral-Abstract: The Pants Memorial Game
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The chairperson selects an object/idea/whatever and announces whether it's animal, vegetable, mineral, and/or abstract. The others have to ask questions to figure out what it is. Whomever guesses the object correctly is given the chair for the next round; repeat ad nauseam.
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The West Bromwich Seven?
The [some place] [some number]?
No, can't be, given the answer to Dazed5 a moment ago.
The [some place] [some collective concept that is not a number]?
Is it a Guild?
Someone in my office said Coventry was once a thiving wool town with a Cappers Guild - nothing to do with checking the tyre pressure at Longbridge then!
Anything to do with Stoke on Trent?
[Chalky] Does that exist? There might be a connection to something along these lines.
[Raak, 2nd question] Yes.
[Inkspot] Nope.
[Lib] Maybe, but not primarily.
Is there a connection to the Longbridge car plant?
Feels generally very close...
[Dazed5] No, you're getting colder.
Would it be The Birmingham Six, by any chance?
Like moths to the flame....
Duuuuh!
Retraction, given the answer to Dazed5's question some while ago.
Are any of them still alive?
Is it a collective name for a group of towns associated with pottery ?
Is it anything to do with the armed forces?
Staffordshire?
[Kim] You shouldn't retract, because you're getting warmer.
[Raak] I should think so.
[Inkspot] No.
[Ibid] Not the armed forces.
[Lib] No.
Is this a group it is possible to join?
A particular part of the police?
[Raak] Not any more, I think.
[Inkspot] Yes! I think we're nearly there...
The West Midlands ... er .... sommat?
[Chalky] Half-way there. I'll accept one of two possible completions.
[Chalky: West Midlands] [Kim: Constabulary]?
The West Midlands Serious Crime Squad?
Kim was soooo close, but it was Raak wot won it.

*shakes Raak by the hand*

*counts fingers*
The next object is ABSTRACT.
Could it exist if there were no humans?
Is it a recent invention, or an age-old concept?
Is it a function of time?
[Riff] No.
[Tuj] Not recent.
[Kim] Yes.
Is it a measure of time?
[Kim] No.
Does it have to do with the process of ageing?
Is it anything to do with religion?
Is it scientific in nature?
[Kim] No. (BTW, I took "a function of time" to mean "having something to do with time".)
[Chalky] (ripple of laughter from the audience) To some people it is. (More laughter.) No, not really.
[Riff] No.
Last orders at the bar?
Yesterday?
Is it an action carried out by humans?
[Chalky] No.
[Software] No.
[Inkspot] People doing things is an essential part of it, but that's not actually the thing itself.
ISIHaC?
Does it take place in all cultures?
[Chalky] No.
[Inkspot] No.
Bar Mitzvah?
er ... back to the chuckle-inducing 'religious' question .... is it an addiction of some kind?
[Inkspot] No.
[Chalky] (more chuckles from the audience) No, not in itself.
Is it anything to do with sport?
[Inkspot] No.
So far, Software's question sniffed closest to the Snark's bum.
Is it an historic event?
[rab] No.
Memories?
[Software] The Snark is nowhere in sight.
Is it being early/late?
Is it the Karma Sutra?
[Chalky,penelope] The Snark is in the vicinity of the Antipodes.
Is it the Rugby World Cup tournament (or part therof) ?
sorry - two questions in close succession, but I can sense myself sniffing quite close to the Snark's Bottom now.
[penelope] The Snark is nowhere to be seen (or sniffed).
Is it connected with literature?
[Chalky] No.
Keeping a diary or appointments?
[Inkspot] No.
Everyone is barking up entirely the wrong ocean.
Might this be the study of some academic discipline?
[rab] No, wrong planet now.
Time. It has to do with time.
Christmas?
Going back to Cultures, anything to do with western work ethic?
Pushing the lilo out into the pool a bit further to see if it floats.
[rab] (applause from the audience) No.
[Inkspot] sssss...glug glug glug
Easter?
Actually, remove that, it's something to do with religion only for some people. So...
Is it some sort of festival?
[rab] Yes! (But not Easter.) The footprints of the Snark have been found.
Is it celebrated in the UK?
(And can I sneak in Bonfire Night to get the obvious festival out of the way)?
Is it the Summer Solstice?
[rab] Yes. At least, in a part of the UK. But not Bonfire Night.
[Kim] No.
Burns night?
Up Helly Aa?
[Lib] No.
[Inkspot] No.
The hunters are circling around the Snark's lair...
Is it celebrated in Scotland?
Glastonbury Festival?
Hogmany?
Jools Holland New Years Eve Hootenanny?
Pushing out a flotilla of rubber ducks!
Beltane?
[rab] The Snark's tail has been grasped.
[Inkspot] The Snark gulps them down and burps.
[Chalky,Penelope] The Snark flings two of its hunters into the top of a tree.
[Software] Wielding the Sword of Truth and the Shield of Fair Play, Software has captured the Snark! (Hogmanay, actually, rather than the festival of stocktaking at the piggery, but I'll give you that.)

Audience presents Software with the mounted head of a Snark.

The longboat is nearly ready for Hogmany or a some call it Up Helly Aa .
[Shetlander] Alas, the audience were insufficiently knowledgeable to give the necessary applause for the near miss.
A pre-emptitive guess. Is it man made?
*muttering from top of tree* ... pesky Snark ...
Is it alive?
Hey! There's a whole new game here. We ask a whole load of questions (say, 20) and then, only when 20 questions have been asked, the winner of the previous round thinks of something that fits some of the questions, but not all of them. On second thoughts.....where is Software, anyway?
A most unexpected surprise! * Takes Bow *. Now What?
Ah a little complex I think but Animal and Vegetable with Abstract connexions.
The Abominable Snowman?
Is it a place?
Is it customarily eaten?
Is it something someone would normaly wear?
Is it alive (in real or fictional terms)?
Hello everyone, welcome to the first batch of answers.
Chalks: No
Raak: No
Inky: No (although slight fidgeting in audience)
Lib: Yes (mostly)
Is the animal human?
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