02-05-2025
Parents Believe Quiz Mistake Over Son's Right Answer—Spark Outrage
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A viral Reddit post has sparked debate, and fury, online after a video game quiz mistakenly labeled Sonic the Hedgehog as a "Nintendo hedgehog."
Posted to the subreddit r/mildlyinfuriating by user mr_glide, the image showed a quiz question that reads: "Which Nintendo® hedgehog is capable of running at tremendous speeds?" The accepted answer? Sonic the Hedgehog—an iconic video game character who is, in fact, owned by Sega.
The exasperated quiz-taker explained that his parents didn't believe him when he explained why the question didn't make sense, instead siding with the printed answer in the book.
"My parents believed the quiz book over me," Redditor mr_glide said.
Newsweek reached out to mr_glide via Reddit for comment.
While Sonic has appeared on numerous Nintendo consoles—from the Wii and DS to the Nintendo Switch—and even starred alongside Mario in crossover titles like Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games and Super Smash Bros., he remains a Sega character.
A picture of the quiz question that left people confused and furious.
A picture of the quiz question that left people confused and furious.
mr_glide/Reddit
Created by Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, and Hirokazu Yasuhara, Sonic debuted in 1991 as Sega's answer to Nintendo's Mario during the height of the console wars.
The confusion though came from the instances where Sonic did appear on Nintendo platforms, since Sega exited the console business. But that doesn't make him a Nintendo property—just a guest in the house that Mario built.
As the post on Reddit gained more attention, people reacted in the comments section.
Sleeper— joked: "Of course, it's the most famous Nintendo mascot! Mario The Hedgehog! Rivaling the popular SEGA mascot Super Sonic Bros!"
While others scratched their heads, trying to think of fast hedgehog characters that were created by Nintendo. In a follow up comment, mr_glide confirmed that the answer in the book was Sonic, adding: "so they did indeed f*** it up."
"I do a lot of Bar Trivia, this is what I call 'Stupid Trivia," Even though it's the wrong answer, it's the answer they are looking for," wrote Redditor nowhereman136.
While Leprodus03 joked: "I don't think that book is licensed by Nintendo."
This isn't the first time an incorrect answer has left the internet baffled. In 2023, a hiker left the internet stumped when they left a seemingly impossible math problem on a tree.
Janiv told Newsweek he was enjoying a hike through Nuuksio National Park, northwest of Helsinki, Finland, with his girlfriend and their two dogs when he spotted what he described as the "enigmatic puzzle."
When they couldn't answer the puzzling question, they turned to the internet, who were equally as baffled. One user online even said: "There are literally an infinite number of solutions."
