[quote name=\'gameboy2000\' post=\'249828\' date=\'Oct 28 2010, 09:09 AM\']I believe that an answer must be included in the survey if at least 2 people provided it.[/quote]
You guys realize the surveys don't go straight from the respondees to the game board, right?
I mean, I agree with Matt in that there's no reason that should invalidate the survey, but Jeremy's point about being screwed by a bunch of idiots who think Michael Jackson is on the $20 bill is totally valid, too, especially considering what horrific television such a screwing would make for. "Oh, you underestimated the stupidity of the average American! You get nothing, you lose, good day, sirs!"
I would have to think that the show's writers go through the survey results and select the questions for broadcast whose results work best with the game. If they got back a survey where Ben Franklin qualified for the board in a Presidential question, I would think they would sigh and send the question out again in a future survey with the hopes that they got smarter respondees next time, or look at the question and see if the wording was vague. Either way, I don't think it would air.
(I could also see them surveying, say, 120 people on a given question, and dropping 20 answers off to cover the bozo factor. They don't say "we surveyed 100 people, no more, no less.")