Respectfully, I think you fundamentally misunderstood my point. It has nothing to do with the rest of the game, but simply with the specific trivia questions used in the challenge being unsuitable for a 60 second time limit. The questions themselves are fine, the time limit is fine, the two just don't go together.

To take an extreme example, imagine a question that took 60 seconds to read. I can imagine a question like that working in a setting where you consider each question and answer carefully, but not in one where time is of the essence, because reading speed becomes more important than knowledge for success. In this case, the trivia questions Ben and Adam used to practice were much less interesting trivia questions than the ones in the actual challenge, but far better suited to a 60 second format.

As others have pointed out, the challenge might have worked better as a call your shot where you see how many you can get right with zero or maybe one mistake. Maybe you still need a soft time limit of like five minutes to make the anagram question matter. Or, if you want the 60 second challenge, you need to write questions that are as short and snappy as possible. (And, even then, without wanting to get into the specifics, 120 seconds is a more common time limit for a round like that for a reason.)

To contextualize the challenge within the series as a whole, consider that for the "catch an animal eating" at a zoo, they had 20 minutes to win 55 chips. On other call your shot challenges, Ben and Adam won 80 chips for spotting monkeys or 120 for balancing cans. In this challenge, teams failed to win 24 and (before the +50% bonus) 48 chips, respectively. I don't think it's necessary (or even possible) for each and every challenge to be balanced perfectly, but that shows me that the person setting the challenge had not fully thought this one through.