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

Australian?

Breadmaster

Asian?

all

American?

Snodgrass

[Inkspot] No
[BM] No
[all] Yes

Inventor?

a native American?

Writer?

President?

Ernest Hemingway?

[Brendan] No
[Inkspot] Yes (as in born there)
[BM] No
[all] No
[all again] Also No

Inkspot

Was he a Texan?

Snodgrass]A native american is more than having been was born there, more can be found here. Is the answer still Yes.

Breadmaster

Did he die violently?

Really, "native American" should mean someone who was born there. The people who actually get called native Americans ought to be called "indigenous Americans", I'd have thought. Just goes to show that Americans don't know what words like "native" actually mean.

all

Was he born before 1850?