My Odd Sock

Every day new prescription medications are FDA-approved and placed on the market.

Do you ever wonder how they come up with the crazy names for these drugs?…Names that are nearly impossible to pronounce!

I use to.  Then I figured it out!

It’s a big, buddy-buddy brewhaha between the pharmaceutical companies and the great fantasy writers of our day…J.K. Rowlings, George Lucas and J.R. Tolkien to name a few.

I surmise, the names of prescription drugs would make perfect characters in any of their movies & novels.

To prove my point, I invite you to play the “My Odd Sock Prescription Name Game!”

Question 1

Listed below are four names.  Three are “Star Wars” characters and one is a prescription medication.  Can you guess which one is the drug?

A) Vestara    B) Senesca    C) Januvia    D) Tavian

Question 2

Reach for the stars!  Below are three more characters from “Star Wars” and one drug.  Find the pill you must? (My Yoda impression)

A)  Crestor   B)  Nihilus   C)  Xizor   D) Palpatine

Question 3

All right wizards, here are three characters from Harry Potter as well as one medication.  Wave your wand and find the drug.

A)  Caradoc   B)  Deverill   C)  Silvanus   D)  Geodon

Question 4

Put on your thinking glasses, Harry!  Here are three more names from Potter and one drug.  Can you name the prescription?

A)  Abraxas   B)  Mirena   C)  Delacour   D)  Cedrella

Question 5

Sharpen your quill, Frado!  Here are three characters from “Lord of the Rings” and one medicine.  Name it…

A)  Isildur   B)  Galadriel   C)  Faramir   D)  Septra

Question 6

I haven’t seen the movie “Avatar” but maybe you have.  Find the med among the three characters and you win!

A)  Xolotl   B)  Voltaren   C)  Quetzie   D)  Orunmila

Question 7

Back to England we go.  Listed below are three prescription drugs and one Harry Potter character.  Can you pick the character?

A)  Lycoris   B)  Kariva   C)  Ultram   D)  Eskalith

Question 8

Finally, climb aboard the X-Wing fighter to find the one “Star Wars” character in this group of drugs.

A)  Dolophine   B)  Norco   C)  Skeloxin   D)  Valorum

Have I made my point?  Or am I being foolish?

Next time Ms. Rowlings seeks a name for a literary character, she only needs to watch the TV commercials for prescription medications.  Either that, or “ask a doctor if Evista is right for her.”

Answers

1)  C     2)  A     3)  D     4)  B     5)  D     6)  B     7)  A     8)  D