There was an evil car in Knight Rider called Knight Automated Roving Robot (KARR - geddit?!)

Your targets this week:

We won this week, but could you do even better?

The attendees
1) The statistician
2) The doctor
3) The secret German
4) The metallurgist
5) The rich-person otherkin
6) The other doctor

The ones that got away
1) In Knight Rider, what model of car is (the original) KITT?
2) Which Canadian singer-songwriter began an advice column in the Guardian earlier this year?
3) Which of these is not a real game developed as part of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise? a) Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games; b) Sister Sonic; c) Sonic's Casino Poker; d) Sonic's Delivery Service; e) Sonic's Schoolhouse
4) What emotion was singer songwriter Akon's first number 1 single as lead artist?
5) What emotion is a part of the mouth spelled backwards?
6) 2 point question: approximately how many US patents have been issued? Your answer will be the number 9 followed by a certain number of zeros.

The answers

1) Trans Am (Pontiac alone does not suffice for the point)
2) Alanis Morissette
3) Sonic's Delivery Service
4) Lonely
5) Smug (from 'gums')
6) 9,000,000 (9 million)

The doctor's excuses

1) Did you know that Trans Am is probably short for Trans America? We didn't hear 'model' and so hedged our bets with Pontiac :(
2) We put Bryan Adams because he's really popular in Canada because he's secretly from there, and so everyone is like, really proud of him, but it was actually Alanis Morissette. Which is ironic.
3) We put Sister Sonic (which, as a cancelled and unreleased title sort of counts as correct, IMO) based on only having heard of one of them (the Olympics one). Sonic's Schoolhouse was an edutainment title and Sonic's Casino Poker (a Japanese mobile poker game from the 2000s). I guess Sonic's Delivery Service is a riff on the Studio Ghibli movie Kiki's Delivery Service? Who knows?!
4) This song is basically a duet between Akon and a weird "chipmunkified" voice singing about how they are "mr lonely". It's pretty weird and I had actually heard it, but since the only Akon song, that we for sure knew the name of, was called "Smack That"... so that's what we put. I think Akon is like... mainly RnB, which is one of the few genres I will happily admit to be largely un-fond of (it's just like, kind of croonily smooth in an annoying way? I dunno. End of The Road by Boyz II Men is a deffo a classic, tho).
5) I hate this kind of question, where people are like 'uh it's a medical question' and it's basically not it's some stupid trick joke. Everyone else seemed fine with it though, weirdly.
6) Given that at one time there was a patent on minigames being played in the loading screen of video games, I'm surprised there aren't as many patents as we thought (900 million).

How did you do? Would you have beaten us (1 or more points)? Let the world know with the poll below, then read on for my alternative questions (loosely) inspired by this week's Ones That Got Away!


Our alternative questions
1) The 'Pontiac Bandit' is a character played by Craig Robinson in which police sitcom? The title consists of a New York borough followed by two numbers.
2) In her first column, Morissette answered a reader who was feeling attracted to a man other than their husband. In doing so, she advised "Far better to let your spark be grist for your marriage’s mill, rather than a reason to end it." - broadly speaking, what is 'grist'?
3) What company, who created and owns the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, takes its name originally from an abbreviation of 'Service Games'?
4) Akon's 'Lonely' features an edited version of 50s crooner Bobby Vinton's 'Mr. Lonely'. A cover of what Tony Bennett song provided Vinton with his biggest hit? The title consists of a colour followed by a fabric.
5) Speaking of body parts that are anagrams of emotions, what body part is an anagram of 'elation'?
6) Pictured are images from US patents 6276176 and 4591071 A, belonging to Sara Blakely and Lonnie Johnson, respectively. For 1 point each, what brand names are each of these inventions associated with?

Question 6 (click for a bigger version!)

The answers

1) Brooklyn Nine-Nine
2) Grain (more specifically, grain separated from its chaff ready for milling)
3) SEGA
4) Blue Velvet
5) Toenail
6) Spanx, Super Soaker

How did you do on my alternative questions? Have another poll!

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