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.

Inkspot

Lady Jane Grey

all

[Brendan] Yes (It also couldn't be Queen V because she wasn't born before 1800)
[Raak] At one time
[Inkspot] No.

Inkspot

If not an author, a diarist Elizabeth Pepys?

Kim

Nell Gwynne?

all

[Inkspot] No.
[Kim] No.

Raak

One of Henry VIII's wives?

Brendan

Queen Anne?

[all] For some reason I read the wrong answer, and thought you'd said "No" to born pre-1800 ... Doh!

Inkspot

Mary wife of William III (of Orange)?

all

[Raak] Yes
[Braendan] You are so very close - We can all make mistakes
[Inkspot] No

Brendan

Anne Boleyn?

all

[Brendan] Yup.

Audience - Cheers and Adulation for Brendan

Brendan

OK, let's have a MINERAL/VEGETABLE (with ABSTRACT overtones). If it becomes obvious that this classification is confusing people, I'll give some pointers ...

Is it made of wood?

And metal?

A painting?

Is the vegetable, paper?

Brendan

[all] in part, but probably not a large part (NB: I am considering "made of wood" to mean dead wood in some way arranged by humans; ie in my definition a tree is not "made of wood" -- which I admit is eccentric)
[Software] probably in places, but it's not a major component
[Raak] No, but keep plugging at why it has abstract overtones
[Inkspot] No.

Raak

Half a dead cow in formaldehyde?

all

Is the vegtable part a tree?