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

[Inkspot] No.
[Kim] No.

One of Henry VIII's wives?

Queen Anne?

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

Mary wife of William III (of Orange)?

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

Anne Boleyn?

[Brendan] Yup.

Audience - Cheers and Adulation for 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?

[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.

Half a dead cow in formaldehyde?

Is the vegtable part a tree?

Oops, ignore my last, dead cow isn't mineral or vegetable.

Half a dead tree in formaldehyde?

Is it unique?

[Raak] No, in either case. [all] Not "a" tree. [Inkspot] Yes.

Hyde Park?

Does the vegetable part involve more than one tree?

Is it a geographical landmark?

Is it a work of art?

[all] No.
[GL] Yes!
[Inkspot] No.
[Raak] The "it" you are looking for isn't, but a work of art (in the broadest sense) is involved.

Tuj

Is it a forest?

Is it a real place mentioned in literature like Sherwood Forest?

[Tuj] Yes, but not just that.
[Inkspot] You're getting very close, but the answer to that particular question is No.

Is it the Hundred Acer Wood?

snorgle

Is it Mirkwood?

Fangorn Forest?

The Forest Moon of Endor?

stop looking at me like that!

[Gusset] No.
[snorgle]No.
[Breadmaster] Nope.
[all] Nope!
All good guesses, but remember it isn't just a forest.

Is it from LOTR?

Under Milk Wood?

Not Forest Gump either then

Can it move around?

Burnham Wood?

[Gusset] No.
['spot] No.
[Breadmaster] No.
[all] No.
When I say it's not just a forest, I mean there's other stuff too, not that it's a special sort or specific example of a forest. The trees are definitely a major component of the mystery item, but perhaps not the one people immediately think of.

The Eden Project?

The Angel of the North?

Tuj

Is it fictional?

[Bm] No.
[Raak] No.
Because ... [Tuj] Yes!

Babylon 5?

Is it from a film like the 'Valley Forge' in Silent Running?

snorgle

The forest referred to in the phrase "Can't see the forest for the trees"?

ZK

Is the fictional setting concerned a movie?

[Raak] No.
[Inkspot] No.
[snorgle] No, it is from a specific work.
[ZK] No, not a movie.

Is it a city?

The Forbidden Forest from Harry Potter which is based on the Forest of Dean?

[all] No, but it is within/near one.
[Inkspot] No.

The Hanging Gardens Of Babylon?

snorgle

Central Park?

Is it from a book?

[snorgle] I've made mistakes with these things before, but are you sure Central Park contains a forest? and is fictional?

Is it an old oak tree with a yellow ribbon tied around it?

[GL] I don't think the Hanging Gardens were fictional either, although not much is known about them.

[BM] There's no proof that it ever existed apart from a book written by someone who never went within a hundred miles of the area it was rumoured to be. But I take your point

Was the book written after 1900?

Snodgrass

Nottingham Forest?

I know Sherwood was mentioned earlier but Notts Forest are a fictional entity, ie they are alledged to be footballers - but nice people all the same who always invite me to their end of season party in January each year.

[Gusset] No.
[snorgle] Alas, too real.
[all]Erm. The work in question is commonly found in books but it is not a book per se. Does that make sense?
[Breadmaster] No.
[Inkspot] No (bearing in mind the above caveats about the phrase "the book").
[Snodgrass] LOL. No.

PS [Snodgrass] Are you also alleging that all the players are vegetables? ;)

Was the book written before 1980?

bearing in mind the above caveats about the phrase "the book"

I meant 1880!

Is it from a poem?

Is it from a play?

Utopia?

[GL] Yes, before 1880.
[Inkspot] Indeed it is. Therefore ...
[Raak] No.
[all] No.

Herot?

Xanadu?

I mean, of course, the location of Kubla Khan's pleasure dome, and not the improbably awful film starring Olivia Newton John and Gene Kelly. On roller skates. In pink. With the Electric Light Orchestra.

[Gusset] No.
[Breadmaster] DING! DING! DING! Yes! It was indeed those twice five miles of fertile ground, with walls and towers girdled round, forests ancient as the hills, gardens bright with sinuous rills, etc. etc. Congratulations. The floor is yours.