I guess at this point in time too many people have got Antidepressants or Tolkien memorised? 😋
this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2025
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I remember an internet joke site decades ago doing one that was sports cars or ED drugs. Don't recall the name of the site though. Quick search didn't turn it up.
21/24 😎 but mostly because I'm a Tolkien nerd. All the ones I got wrong were old kings of Gondor, clearly shows which part of the universe I don't care about.
18/24 quite good.
I got 18/24. I'm pleasantly surprised. That was pretty tough.
15/24 I'm surprised
I love how someone with literally no knowledge of pharmaceuticals could ace this if they are pokemon players.
That’s why, if real, this is a terrible test.
From the wording at the top it sounds like this was just for fun and probably ungraded.
sounds like a bar night near the med school to me
“Congratulations on the winners, and I hope everyone had a great time[…]I hope you will join me next time for more Pokémon or drug fun!”
Yes, this was definitely the final exam and not a trivia game.
Basically American medical academia in the next 10 years.
How long before before the instructor is able to put a trick question on the test (i.e., "Both") because The Pokemon Company has started licensing names to pharmaceutical companies?
Brb, gonna take some of that Charizardimap the doc prescribed me against my anxiety. It's super effective.
Snorlax is a perfect name for a sleep aid
i mean if there's some condition that gives kids brain zaps, calling the pill pikachuquil or something isn't a terrible idea
Join me for more pokémon or drug fun
Don"t mind if I do!
Today it’s Pokémon AND drug fun!
congrats on remembering all the drug names! you must have studied hard!
*guy that only recognised the pokemon names* yes.... thank you
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The most interesting thing to me is: there has to be a whole subgenre of market research about which syllables sound "sciency"/"medical"/"effective" to certain target audiences of a drug...
I imagine this is somewhat like in my childhood as a non-native English speaker in the 90's where most my exposure was through music and then we would make up these words from English sounding syllables that sounded "cool" to us 😄
Idk about that I keep hearing a commercial for something called skyrizzy. I don't remember what it's for but the name is stupid as fuck.
Sounds like whatever the opposite of Adderall/Ritalin would be
There is! Pharmaceutical companies have departments devoted to coming up with names. There are some legal requirements, you cannot imply your drug is the best or most effective in the name, and it cannot be a name similar to another registered pharmaceutical. Then there is market research on what names resonate the most with consumers, puts them at ease, what they like to hear, and what they would like to say.
Usually they just use Latin and or Greek language to describe the chemical structure or other properties
There are two very narrow bands of people who would pass this test.
So a Pokémon expert would get this correct, even with zero pharmaceutical knowledge.
I bet a pharmacy expert would get this correct, even with zero pokemoneutical knowledge.
This gives me the vibe of a meme someone would share on their midwest neighborhood's Facebook group to "prove" that Medical academia is a scam, right next to a list of "chemicals" they put in your shampoo or pet food or something.
It's a funny little snippet but doesn't "mean" anything. Words are silly and names for things can be hard to invent.
Yeah, drug names and Pokémon names are running into the same problem. They can't reuse them, and there are so many already.
Actually, I suppose a name being used for a drug or a Pokémon precludes it from being used for the other, so it is a very shared issue, lol.
Wonder how far they have to reserve names in advance to prevent overlap. A Nintendo vs GSK court case for a name would be less absurd than many news stories this year.
Actually, I suppose a name being used for a drug or a Pokémon precludes it from being used for the other, so it is a very shared issue, lol.
Theoretically, unrelated trademarks can have the exact same name in different fields, owned by completely different owners, but that generally only applies to trademarks that are regular words that are already in use: Apple Computer versus Apple Music (which the Beatles owned and ended up selling to Apple Computer), Monster Energy Drink versus Monster Cable versus Monster Jobs, Dove soap versus Dove chocolate, etc.
Still, the law looks to likelihood of customer confusion, and maybe it would be too confusing to have a Pokemon named Ozempic.
The underlying issue is that medicine names are wordy and most not overlap with an existing word or name.
50:50 I like those odds
I guess I am getting old. The only Pokemon I recognised is Diancie😔
Dusion is Gen V – the middle stage of the Reuniclus line. Braixen likewise is Gen VI – the middle stage of the Delphox line. And Amaura is Gen VI – the pre-evolution of Aurorus.
neeeeeeeeeeerd :3
And some of them sounds like Harry Potter spell.
Bena Expectorant!
I've played a few Pokémon games but don't know any of these.
Some of them are the most recent generation, like fez, rellor , veluza. If you don't play the switch games or the card game you wouldn't know
Seems like a game show question
Yeah, seems like someone could pass the test by only knowing pokemon, which isn't what we'd want in testing people on their drug knowledge.
Sometimes professors are allowed to have fun.
Drugs vs pokemon vs memes
It also sounds like the sorts of character names Sandy would use in their games - looks like an endless pool of NPC names for the future!