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Animal-Vegetable-Mineral-Abstract: The Pants Memorial Game
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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.
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More than one and a half legs?
[all] No.
[Raak] Yes.
[Gusset] Yes.
I believe he had the usual number of legs, although I can't be certain that it is ever specified...
Less than two arms?
[all] Nope. And I'll tell you for free, no more than two either.
More than one head?
Is he a character from a book?
Was the (or a significant) fictional work in which he appears, published within the last 50 years?
Was he older than 25 in the fictional work?
Is the fictional work of British origin?
An anthromoporthic representation of a natural function?
[Tuj] That sounds rude.
Gandalf?
Yes, I know he's not human, but he's close enough.
[all] Nope.
[all] Yes. Kind of.
[Darren] No.
[Gusset] Yes.
[Brendan] Yes.
[Tuj] Eeeooo! no.
[all] No.
Biggles?
Baron Munchhausen?
Has a film been made of the book?
A book for broadly Adult consumption?
[Raak] That was a guess by proxy I assume!
[Snodgrass] No.
[Raak] No. He was real, anyway...
[Gusset] Yes.
[Snodgrass] Yes, but it ain't naughty.
As I said, it's "sort of" a book, but not exactly.
Newspaper based?
Andy Capp?
A Non-newspaper based comic?
A graphic novel?
[Snodgrass] No, and no.
[all] No.
[Raak] No.
Before the 20th century?
Comics?
Eeeooo! (I love it!)
[Raak] Yes.
[Tuj] No.
Someone from the Arthurian legends?
King Arthur?
[Raak] No.
[all] No.
A character from Shakespeare?
A character from Bacon?
[Raak] Yes!
[all] Only when he was writing under Shakespeare's name...
Was it a character from Hamlet?
Is it Hamlet?
I meant "Was he" on the previous question
[all] No.
[all] Again, no.
Was he a king?
Was he a character from Romeo and Juliet?
Titus Andronicus?
Or however he spelled his name
Is he from one of the comedies?
Is he from one of the Histories?
King Lear?
Othello?
a blatant lurker's guess
[Raak] No.
[all] No.
[Gusset] No.
[Brendan] It's not normally classed as a comedy, I believe.
[all] No.
[Gusset] No.
[Chalky] Nope.
Banquo?
Falstaff?
Does he end up murdered?
Caius Martius, known as Coriolanus?
[Raak] No.
[Snodgrass] No - not from a history, remember.
[Darren] He does not.
[Chalky] Nope.
Shylock the Jew?
...although The Merchant of Venice was originally entitled The Comical History of The Merchant of Venice and as this isn't a Comedy or a History ....
Is the character from one of the Tragedies?
[Chalky] No, and no. I have to say I never found The Merchant of Venice particularly rib-tickling, although that would hardly bar it from being a Shakespeare comedy...
Petruccio - the Tamer of the Shrew?
That was a film, I think
[Bm] Not a comedy, a history, or a tragedy then? Doesn't leave much.
Adonis?
[Chalky] Nope.
[Raak] It doesn't, does it? Nope.
Is this from a Shakespeare work other than a play?
A sonnet?
[Darren] It's not.
[Tuj] Nope.
Prospero?
Googling has turned up a fourth class of Shakespearian play, the Romances.
[Raak] YES! Prospero it is. I believe that The Tempest is indeed generally classified as Shakespeare's one "romance" or "fantasy" play.
The site I found the term on also applied it to Pericles, Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale.

The next object is VEGETABLE and MINERAL

A potted plant?
[Tuj] No.
Is the mineral component man-made (sorry person made)?
[S] Partly.
Is it edible?
[Chalky] The rest of it is.
Is part the mineral metal?
Is the mineral part made of glass?
[Inkspot] No.
[all] The man-made part is.
Actually, the whole thing's man-made, but the non-glass mineral component isn't.
Is it a greenhouse?
Just checking :)
Is it bigger than a phonebox?
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