This puzzle is based off the popular game show of the same name. The first step is to determine the correct answers to the questions. In order, they are:
- Uranus
- Shade
- Easter Island
- Aristotle
- Semicolon
- Charlemagne
- Isosceles
- Iodine
In order, the first letters of these answer spell out USE ASCII. ASCII is an encoding used in programming where symbols can be encoded by strings of eight binary bits (ones or zeros). Conveniently enough, there are eight questions in this puzzle. That means each person’s correct and incorrect answers can be encoded as ones and zeroes to give six characters. (It may not be immediately obvious to solvers whether correct answers should be one or zero, but since all letters in ASCII start with 01, it quickly becomes clear.) The strings are:
- Alison: 01010000 = p
- Bennett: 01010101 = U
- Charlie: 01010000 = p
- Dennis: 01001001 = I
- Emma: 01001100 = L
- Faith: 01010011 = S
The capitalization can be ignored. (It only varies so that the third question could have a mix of correct and incorrect answers.) The answer is PUPILS.