Well I’m glad that we seem to have got to the bottom of this. I personally don’t have a problem with a quiz setter accepting amendments to previously submitted answers provided that it is purely as a result of the entrant realising that he/she has made an error (although I’m sure some quiz setters would not accept any such amendments). What everyone seems to be agreeing as being wholly unacceptable is for a quiz setter to inform an entrant of any errors in his/her answers before the deadline and then accepting revisions to those answers. That is just plain wrong.
I still don’t see how announcing that a fully correct set of answers has been submitted in advance of the deadline can do anything other than reduce further sales of the quiz. That is surely simple common sense. And whether or not it arises as a result of banter etc on a site such as this is totally irrelevant - it will still reduce sales to some extent.
Greedy Kite – re your question about quizzes and crosswords. I find it hard to believe that anyone could win a crossword without getting all the answers correct. After all, you know the number of letters in any particular answer and some of those letters as a result of answers to other clues. So there are only a finite number of possible answers from say Chambers that fit the pattern. But for a quiz question you may have no idea of the number of letters in the answer and if the theme of the quiz is suitably vague then it may be the case that nobody solves that particular clue. So while some quizzes (probably the majority) are won with a score of 100% there are others where a lower score will suffice. For example, a couple of years ago a very hard ditloid quiz was won with a score of 111 out of 125 with second place scoring less than 100. I therefore contend there is certainly a difference between crosswords and quizzes in this respect and hence leaving a quiz answer blank does not necessarily mean you won’t win the quiz.