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In that case, if a team knows it's that bad it should guess without looking at the answers (and if that doesn't work, try to generate pseudorandom numbers somehow). If the goal is to learn what you know about chemistry, you can make a note of what you think the correct answer is to the side and then still guess randomly. So the problem here is poor calibration, I guess.
That would have improved their performance, but I think if they had been clever enough to think of that sort of strategy, they probably wouldn't have needed it.