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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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Is it connected with geography?
[Snodgrass] No
[Raak] No
Interesting fact: although Olympus Mons is three times the height of Everest, it doesn't look it. In fact, if you were standing near it on Mars, you probably couldn't see it. This is because it's not a mountain so much as part of a huge swelling on the surface of the planet, known as the Tharsis Bulge, which also features three other large shield volcanoes. A similar arrangement exists at the Elysium region on the other side of the planet. Because Mars has never had moving tectonic plates like Earth, its wells of magma remained in the same place relative to the surface terrain, which is why these huge volcanic systems had time to form. Technically, Olympus Mons is indeed 24km high, but only if you compare the "summit" to the average altitude of the Martian surface - but there is nowhere near the summit that is that average altitude, if you see what I mean. It is over 20 times wider than it is tall, and the incline is so shallow that you could cycle up it. So to call it a mountain would be pretty misleading. It's more of a plateau, the boundary being marked by a mighty cliff, up to 6km high, which is the one part where you might have a bit of difficulty on a bike.
[Breadmaster] Thank you, do you have a question for this round?
Is it an idea that people probably had 2,000 years ago?
Ah yes. Question. I knew there was something.
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