Exactly - the category label probably is very little help in narrowing down possible answers to a text-processing algorithm.
After typing out this comment it occurs to me that if you carefully consider each answer there is only only logical question for all the answers in this category. Although I don't have any specific examples, there are times when a question is ruled incorrect because of the category name (e.g The category called for a specific number of letters in the response).
Either they ended up not implementing this, or Watson didn't hear him correctly :)