mc5 - Animal-Vegetable-Mineral-Abstract: The Pants Memorial Game

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.

Raak

The green, green grass of home?

Kim

[Inkspot] No.
[Chalky] No.
[Raak] No.

Toby

Is it an anthropomorphisation?

It doesn't sound like it's a book we'll ever have heard of, certainly not all of us.

Inkspot

Is it about DIY in space?

If its not who you know, but what you know, all I know so far is its a factual book about lectures by people that may be scientists, and the title is a commonly used phrase. Perhaps Raak is holding back 'cause I haven't the foggiest; time to bow out.

Raak

Is the book by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart?

I haven't the foggiest either.

Raak

Newton's Apple?

Kim

[Toby] No.
[Inkspot] No. Please persist.
[Raak] No and no.
[All] I've been trying to think of a clue that won't give the game away, but it's hard. Inkspot is closest so far. Think of something that is abstract and vegetable and has something to do with what you know.