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.

rab

Actually it's not quite a saying, but close enough to have answered 'yes' to that question.

Bob the dog

Is it a traffic jam?

Bob the dog

Is it savoury?

rab

Bob: no to both

Inkspot

Is the vegetable part a root vegetable?

Boolbar

Is it being in a pickle?

rab

Inkspot: see below; Boolbar: no.

[Inkspot] We've already ascertained that it's a compound of more than one vegetable (which I'm taking in a more general sense to mean 'plant'); at least one of the components looks like it might be a root vegetable, but my knowledge of horticulture is not that extensive, nor is google being much help. Sorry.