According to Fedde Le Grand, Detroit is 'lovely'

Your targets this week:

1+ out of 11: Well done, you beat us!
3+ out of 11: We'd have won with you on our team!

The attendees
1) The statistician
2) The doctor
3) The left-fielder

The ones that got away
1) Name the song from the lyrics: "Now that the party is jumping/With the bass kicked in and the Vegas are pumpin'/Quick to the point, to the point no faking/I'm cooking MC's like a pound of bacon".
2) Which French explorer founded Detroit? (Surname suffices.)
3) In terms of population, which is the largest capital city in Central America and the Caribbean?
4) Da Vinci's The Last Supper is supposedly based on an account in which Gospel?
5) Who said "Oh, the places I've been and the things I've seen."? Was it Bugs Bunny, Joseph Stalin, or Hulk Hogan?
6) In terms of area, which is the largest four-letter country?
7) Who was President of the United States when the original Purple Heart was introduced?
8) Which of these companies was founded first: Reebok, Adidas, or Nike?
9) 3 point question: In Monopoly Here and Now: The World Edition, there are three properties corresponding to cities in Canada (Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver). Which other country is also represented in the game by three different cities?

The answers

1) Ice Ice Baby (Vanilla Ice)
2) (Antoine de la Mothe) Cadillac
3) Havana
4) John
5) Bugs Bunny (in Mutiny on the Bunny)
6) Iran
7) George Washington (although this is a little dodgy; see below)
8) Reebok (in 1895; Adidas was founded in 1924, Nike in 1964)
9) China (Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai)

Our excuses

1) Lyrics questions are almost never our bag, and while this is an incredibly famous song, it didn't ring any bells. That said, our guess of Pump Up the Jam (by Technotronic) was at least in the right-ish era.
2) A question that feels like a bit of a quizzing chestnut, but not one we'd encountered before. Unsurprisingly, the car brand is named after him (whose headquarters were based in Detroit).
3) I'll admit to getting a bit headstrong here and assuming 'Central America' included Mexico (with its famously populous capital). Had I realized my mistake Havana would have been the obvious choice: the next-largest capital in the area is Port-au-Prince in Haiti, with a little over half the population.
4) At worst a one in four shot, the doctor had a vague memory it was Luke. Not much more to say!
5) A pretty weird question, I thought. Usually with multiple choice you find yourself focusing more on trying to meta-game rather than the question itself, and here Stalin seemed the odd one out to us.
6) What seems at first like quite a fun question is actually pretty brutal when you check the numbers. Iran is the 18th-largest country in the world with an area of 1.6 million square kilometres, but Peru and Chad (the latter being our answer) come in fairly close behind at 20th and 21st (around 1.3 million square kilometres each), respectively.
7) I say this is a bit dodgy (or at least, a little bit trick-questiony) since it was apparently designed originally as the 'Badge of Military Merit' under Washington, with only three awarded at the time. The medal was 'revived' as the Purple Heart under Hoover, making our guess of Franklin Roosevelt not seem too ridiculous in retrospect.
8) We at least guessed the second-oldest option, but while this isn't a spectacularly fun question I'll give it credit for the three options being pretty far spread out.
9) A bit of a crapshoot, with USA seeming the most obvious answer. We did consider China, but weren't convinced there were three Chinese cities famous enough to appear in the game.

How did you do? Would you have beaten us (1 or more points)? Would you have helped us win (3 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!


My alternative questions
1) Vanilla Ice has claimed he purchased the publishing rights to which song, saying it made more financial sense than paying out royalties?
2) What portmanteau nickname for the city of Detroit is also the name of an American record company?
3) Name the country whose capital, despite having a 'city proper' population of around 22 million people, contains fewer than 2% of the national population.

Question 4

4) Using the version shown here, can you pick out Judas?
5) Which British Overseas Territory, currently home to just a few dozen people, is largely inhabited by descendants of the Bounty mutineers and the Tahitians who accompanied them?
6) The grape variety Syrah, used primarily to produce red wine, is also known by what name which it shares with an Iranian city?
7) Every US President from John F. Kennedy to Bill Clinton has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom - except who?
8) Sometimes referred to as the 'Nike tick', what is the name of Nike's logo?
9) For one point each: identify these three Monopoly 'special editions' based on the least and most valuable properties, and the currency used. (You don't have to get the precise name of the edition, just the location/franchise.)
a) Arkell's Brewery and The Magic Roundabout (£)
b) Dagobah Swamp and Coruscant Imperial Palace (Credits)
c) Pumpkin Hill and Mad Gear Zone (Rings)

The answers

1) Under Pressure (heavily sampled in Ice Ice Baby)
2) Motown (from 'Motor Town')
3) China
4) He's fourth from the left, knocking over the salt and reaching for the same piece of bread as Jesus
5) The Pitcairn Islands
6) Shiraz
7) Richard Nixon
8) The swoosh
9) Swindon (this article about its launch is great), Star Wars, and Sonic the Hedgehog

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

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