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.
[all] Not strictly fictional but it does appear in fiction (I took humanoid to be alluding to something of a human form but not actually human - like a Cyborg or other robot.)