Antidepressants or Tolkien

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.smeargle.fans/post/72422

HN Discussion

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22 Comments

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 43 pts · 2y

It's a trick question. Tolkien's works are also antidepressants.

Rudee@lemmy.ml · 32 pts · 2y (1 reply)

21/24

I should be ashamed for not knowing all the kings of Gondor

DieguiTux8623@feddit.it · 11 pts · 2y

Some are really challenging, my score was lower...

amio@kbin.social · 22 pts · 2y (3 replies)

19/24, one of the accents threw me off. Also some of these are just wrong - sildenafil (Viagra), amantadine and at least one more are not antidepressants at all, and a few of the remaining ones are truly super obscure. "Introduced in Russia in the late 60s", "Indian antidepressant from 1982", "Formerly marketed in Spain and Marocco" etc

smeg@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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amio@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y

At first I thought you were talking about something like whatever-iazid, the first "antidepressant" that was actually an antibiotic and the antidepressive effect was completely accidental. But yeah, I suppose that makes sense, too.

Grass@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

For the purposes of the quiz just being a drug of some sort is probably close enough to add a few more rounds. One might also argue that Viagra makes a peen harder to depress? Anyway if they didn't put in fake Tolkien names or names from other authors I figure it's fine.

CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de · 18 pts · 2y (3 replies)

22 of 24. Yeah, I know too much antidepressants...

Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Same score as me, but my first thought was that I know too much about LOTR

Though I only guessed on a couple

Perhaps I also know too many antidepressants

magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

For me it's both...

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y

I would have done way better if they only used the chemical name. Instead it seemed like mostle a mix of non-proprietary names and trade names.

PunnyName@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

16/24, that shit got hard

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Agreed! Got the same score as you btw 🤜🤛

brb@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 2y

9/24, how is this possible lmao

WallEx@feddit.de · 7 pts · 2y (3 replies)

17/24, the extended marathon is overdue, that's probably why

Hillock@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

While an extended version marathon is always due, it won't improve your score here. Lord of the Rings (books and movies) don't cover most of the characters.

WallEx@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y

Absolutely, was just talking about not being in the loop, but the books are on queue too ^^ (not only lord of the rings)

Delta_V@midwest.social · 2 pts · 2y

Yeah, I've read the books and watched the movies, but still only got 12/24, or exactly the same as I'd expect to get by picking answers at random.

muggedTassi@feddit.de · 7 pts · 2y

18/24 and I've never even finished reading LotR or gotten around to getting an antidepressant prescription. I did borrow the Simarillion from the library for months though, opened it a couple times but never got around to reading it. I just know a little bit about Tolkien's linguistics and the way drug brand names work, but I got scared once I got one wrong.

JoKi@feddit.de · 7 pts · 2y

20/24 - with some luck

Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 2y

18/24, nice one

babboa@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Literally half or more of the drugs aren't antidepressants...

Bluu@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y

19/24 that was fun