QUITE EAGLENESTING

I think I had a problem with the fact that it wasn't really... questions with concrete answers that we could get wrong. I mean, QI sure uses clever wordplay to goad a forfeit out of the panelists sometimes, but it generally doesn't revolve the entire show around it and more often than no the forfeits come from straight up incorrect answers. They don't buzz people for having the correct answer, even if it's not the interesting answer. So yes, if text is a tool used to create text adventures, as you say, it's not wrong and not really meriting a forfeit.