• Rudee@lemmy.ml
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    21/24

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

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    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

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

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        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.

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          The fun fact there is that Viagra was developed as heart / blood pressure medicine, its effect on blood flow in other areas was a happy coincidence!

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      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.

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      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

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      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.

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

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        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.

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    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.