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Antidepressants or Tolkien (antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app)
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[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

21/24

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Viagra is an antidepressant in a very indirect way, in that you usually feel quite a bit happier after making use of its effects!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Wow, 14/24 that was more difficult than I thought. TBF I haven't fully reread the Silmarillion since Middle School, but I didn't expect it to be quite this hard.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I have the same score!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Some of the names were really similar

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Agreed! Got the same score as you btw 🤜🤛

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

9/24, how is this possible lmao

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

19/24 I see an É and I assume Tolkein. Oh well.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Me too... I was so sure about "Clélial" and instead...

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

20/24 - with some luck

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

18/24, nice one

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

19/24, mostly by luck than knowledge of LOTR.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

24/24, cos while i dont know any antidepressants, i do know my tolkien... :)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I got 15/23. I refuse to take the point on successfully guessing "Bilbo" because that was a freebie

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

19/24 that was fun

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