Yeah, that question about the choreographers is one of the strangest I've ever seen.

Game was actually going pretty well, all things considered, until I (along with many others) cratered on that Southern Alps question. Instead of 53-54,000, I had to settled for a measly 45,000, which turned out to be pretty good in the end.

Actually pre-called the Southern Alps answer. Had some problems with the choreographers, as well as the Hwang plays, the ethnicity of Trinidad's population, the sociology texts, etc.

The only exposure to the Six game that I get is through the posts on this forum.
But having read the various posts regarding topic options and content over the last
few years on here, it appears that Six is slowly evolving in a similar fashion to Showdown
about 15-20 years ago.
The game is shifting slightly from general trivia of variable difficulty to a more academic
flavored game featuring targeted science and humanities topics as the "separators"
between the routine and the challenging.
I'm not certain if this is the natural evolution of a game wherein the writers want
to assure themselves of not duplicating previous material or it's merely the fact
that the game is also being written by the same author of Showdown and this
is the result of using the same research time to kill two birds.
Given that it's on twice a week, I'm leaning toward the former.
But given cost-cutting measures the last few years, it's probably both.

It might be that, but I'd say it's more likely just lazy writing, without much thought about what would make a decent overall game. Examples: I didn't play Thursday, but happened to look up at two individual sciences questions, both phrased, "What sort of an animal is a XXXXXX?" Or the Trinidadian ethnicity question; I don't mind the question in principal, but it comes up a lot (about various countries, of course.) With regard to Trinidad, though, the ethnicities to match included Indian, Black, Chinese and Mixed, and the percentages were 1% (easy enough), then three very close together, like 23, 24, 27. That's just not a great question, even if you know something about Trinidad. Depending on the source and the definition of "mixed," the question is a crapshoot. Compounding the issue was the same question later in the game, about Singapore's ethnicities. That one was much easier, but speaks to the laziness and lack of thought on the part of the writer(s).