mc5 - AVMA Take 2

[CdM] - NO (apart from the bits that are YES)
[Raak] Horny Letzeburger? - NO
[cfm] Religious connection? - NO

Chalkeeeeee

Two word answer?

A human construct beginning with P?

(OK, OK, I'll break it down)

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Bigger than a phone box?

[Chalky] Gimme 2? - NO.
[CdM]Pconstruct? - pNO
[GL] Exceeds phone box? - YES. *audience laughter*

A human construct that has no anarchosyndicalist connections?

Triangulating.

[CdM] A human construct that has no anarchosyndicalist connections? - NO (though I suppose that depends on your definition of 'a human construct')
Obfuscating

Is it descriptive of a group of people

Unique?

[Chalky] Describes a group of people? - NO, *a few murmurs in the audience*
[Tuj] Unique? - YES

Does the physical thing have a symbolic function?

[Raak] Physical/Symbolic - OK, the simple answer to your question is NO, but actually I probably need to clarify what I meant when setting this.
You can regard the words on the card as being purely physical with an animal element plus a mineral element (and I think that's the best way to approach it). However, within the constraints of the game I could quite reasonably say that this is an abstract thing, though still related to exactly the same animal and mineral elements - in either case if you get them, you have the answer. Hope that helps.

Bigger than your typical two-up-two-down?

[Raak] Exceeds a house? - Oh YES

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Bigger than a city?

Is the animal human?

Is it in a specific country?

Some assumptions building up...

[GL] Exceeds a city? - YES
[Raak] Human animal? - YES and NO (more YES than NO)
[Tuj] Specific Country? - NO

Is this a well-known phrase or saying?

Bigger than Wales?

[Chalky] Saying? - NO
[Raak] Exceeds Wales? - YESish. - One of the elements of the answer is bigger than Wales - the answer itself is hard to put a size to.

BTW I should have mentioned that the audience perked up a bit at Tuj's last question.

Is the mineral element water?

Is the human element the entire population of the world including those with anarchosyndicalist tendencies?

[Chalky] Watery mineral? - NO
[CdM] Globality? - NO (can't answer for the anarchosyndicalism, but unlikely to be significant)

Related to mining?

Is it associated with a particular country?

[Raak] Mining-related? - NO
[Tuj] Related to specific country? - NO, not to one particular country *some applause for the line of questioning*

Is this one thing distributed over more than one continent?

[Raak] Is this one thing distributed over more than one continent? - NO (or more precisely: NO, not really and NO)

European?

On Earth?

[Raak] European? - YES
[Chalky] On Earth - Unsurprisingly, YES

Is the mineral element metal?

[Chalky] Metal? - Almost entirely NO

Is the mineral element rock?

The entire population of Europe?

(er, and the land beneath their feet)

[Chalky] Rocky? - YES *some relieved applause*
[CdM] All Europe? (& Europeans) - NO *audience subsides*

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A mountain range?

At last

[GL] - Mountain range? - YES, a mountain range is part of the answer *considerable applause*

Is the human part alive?

*is wondering why no Vegetable element was part of the original poser - -given that mountain ranges would usually have vegetation about their person - *

making some progress

[Raak] Living human - NO
[Chalky] I did consider it, but thought it wouldn't really be very helpful. A bit like saying a person is animal and mineral because they have mercury amalgam fillings in their teeth.

Are prehistoric fossils involved?

[Raak] Fossils? - NO

Do you need a leg-up?

I think you're closer to it than it feels.

War graves?

Are the Alps part of the answer?

Well, there's only a finite number of mountain ranges in Europe...

[Raak] War Graves? - NO *a slight stirring in the audience*
[jim] Alps? - YES - the Alps are the mineral part of the answer *applause*

Dead mountaineers?

[Raak] Ex-climbers? Well, YES and YESish, but NO, not as it applies to the answer.

Otzi The Iceman?

Does it begin with P?

[Chalky] The Iceman Cometh? - NO (But you do need to start sorting out the animal bit now)
[CdM] P.......? - NO

Hannibal crossing the Alps with his elephants?

It randomly popped into my head ...

I didn't think it was THAT hard

We have a winner!
It is exactly as jim said: Hannibal's crossing of the Alps
The abstract side of it being that it is an action or event rather than a thing.
Have an ivory baton, sir.

I say, well done.

Damn. I thought of that before my previous move, but then dismissed it because I thought we had established the animal element as (fully) human. I should read more carefully.

Takes ivory baton quickly and hides it before the animal rights people get wind of it.

Thanks! Hmm. Now I have to think of a clue, don't I? OK, have an ABSTRACT with ANIMAL connections.

Is the animal connection human?

Is the animal connection elephant?

[INJ] YES, human.
[Tuj] NO, non-pachydermic.

A particular human?

Is there any connection with the arts?