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

[Darren] No.
[GL] Quite the reverse.
[S] No.
[all] No.

The Calm before the storm?

Does it contain anything else apart from water and air?

(assuming that air is at least part of the non-water content)

The eye of the storm?

[GL] No.
[Brendan] No. Air is indeed the non-water part.
[Bm] No.

Ok, so it's established that storm is a significant part of it.

The Perfect Storm

[Snodgrass] No.

St Elmo's Fire?

Not really to do with air and water so much as electricity, but frankly, my flum is utterly moxed at this point.

[Brendan] No.
Trust me, you'll all know exactly what it is, and recognise its fictional appearances, when the answer is revealed.

The / A Tempest?

I don't know about flummoxed I haven't got a Clooney hence the frantic straw clutching with a perfect storm.

The specific fictional work was it written before 1940?

see if this will clear the fog a little.

Is a property of the general class of fictional works that they're set at sea?

[Snodgrass] No.
[Inkspot] Yes.
[Brendan] No.

April Showers?

Bermuda Triangle?

The fictional work referred to previously - is this a song?

[GL] No.
[Chalky] No.
[Darren] No.

Time for a hint?

Does the answer appear in the title of the work?

Raak]How about a one or two more questions on the source of the work, followed by a hint.

Is the fictional work pre-1850?