a ToD confused...

Last night was SWILoween, seven hours (I admit it, I'm a wimp who leaves parties at 3AM before they even get interesting) of fun and games and overloud bleed-in music from Olde Club. It featured the biggest Telephone Oracle game I've ever seen (about twenty of us, with another fifteen plus coming in to listen to the read-out, which given that we were on the first floor of the WRC made it difficult to inhale), with at least two spectaularly accurate answers. crystalpyramid has one.

But my question is about something that happened at the end of the evening. I went to the Truth or Dare game, partly because I wanted to get the SWILpoint -- I'd never gone to one before. Whatever happened there is private among those in attendance, but I can mention the structural aspect that confused me:

Someone would choose a person and ask them "Truth or Dare?" Based on their answer, either they'd be asked a question or told to do something.
Isn't that a ridiculous way to run it? Why not say the question first, as in: "Truth or Dare: Who is your hero?". Then the person could decide whether they wanted to answer the question, knowing at least what it was! (I guess you could also list the dare up front too, but that seems secondary)

Has ToD always been run this way? Are there places that play it more like the way I'm suggesting?