But do the categories (Animal, Vegetable, Mineral) just make no sense against the possibile answers?
The instructions for the game are at the top. A player picks a word from a card and the other player has to guess the word they've picked, starting by asking if it's an animal, vegetable or mineral.
Clearly not nylon.
Wouldn't silk be Animal though? Are worm by-products vegetables? Were plant fiber parachutes a thing?
“Early parachutes were made of silk. The most common fabric today is nylon.”