Strange behaviour on question slides with a countdown timer!

Hello Captivators,
I am facing a strange behaviour on question slides with a countdown timer. Whenever I place a countdown timer on a question slide, one of the options/answers disappear. What is going wrong here? Am I missing anythig in the settings?
I am using Captivate 8 (Trial Version).
Thank you for your support in advance.
Greetings

Sorry for the double question. However, I see that there are 10 Captivate communities and I thought I can post my question in one or some of them. Anyway, I know now that it is "Not very friendly" to do that. Sorry again!

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