S.C.O.R.E. Challenge FAQ: what actually counts, what's broken, and fast-farm routes

Field-tested answers to the S.C.O.R.E. challenge questions that don't have clean answers anywhere else — does a Scorchbeast count as "Scorched"? Do Liberators and Turrets count as robots? What's actually broken and not worth chasing? Plus a couple of fast-farm routes for Cryptid/Glowing dailies.