A: YES.
Surprisingly, about 72% of people who get hit with this puzzle for the first time pick C: CANNOT BE DETERMINED. Because we don't know Charity Case's marital status, and it can't be determined, people assume that it infers that the solution can't be determined.
In fact, Charity Case's marital status doesn't matter. If she is married, then a married pony (Charity Case) is looking at an unmarried one (Quiet Time). If she isn't married, a married pony (Jet Set) is looking at an unmarried pony (Charity Case).
Hopefully those of you who got caught out on this will take better care not to make lazy assumptions.
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Ouch, you got me there. I feel embarrassed
Wait, the Puzzle was stated as
The answer should be B: NO. The reasoning is very different. Since we're looking for whether an "unmarried pony is looking...", we can always ignore who Jet Set is looking at since he's married and nopony is looking at him. Since we need to determines if the watched pony is married, we only need to worry about Quiet Time being observed. Since he is not married, the answer must always be no.
Was something changed or just a mistake?
You get tripped up because you forget there's only two things CC could be, and not a third Schrodinger's Cat sort of deal