Well, it looks like the responses to yesterday's quiz have slowed down, so with that, here are the answers and the winners.

As polymorphously noted in the comments, there was a common theme among the psych meds -- they're all antipsychotics. I figured keeping everything to one family would be fun for anyone who figured that out. I could have also used some benzodiazepines (Deracyn, Normoc, Lendormin?) or antidepressants, though the SSRIs' trade names are all pretty easy to recognise. The Pokemon names were chosen mainly to be confusing; note the prevalence of names ending in -an and -on, which sound like drug names to me (and quite a few other people, if the results of this quiz are at all representative).

So, on to the answers!

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1. Geodon: psych med
   
   Pfizer's trade name for ziprasidone, an atypical antipsychotic. It's a dopamine, serotonin and alpha-adrenergic antagonist, and is mainly used in treating schizophrenia. It's what inspired this quiz in the first place, because every time I saw the name I kept hearing "Geodude" in my head. A little more than half of you apparently also had the same reaction.

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2. Nidoran: Pokemon
   
   One of the few Pokemon that appears in male and female versions; it looks like a small blue or purple rabbit with spines on its back, and exhibits sexual dimorphism. (Tell that to your kids!)

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3. Marowak: Pokemon
   
   The evolved form of Cubone. It looks vaguely reptilian with an external, skull-shaped helmet, and carries a large bone that it hits things with. Does the name just not sound particularly medical, or is this a fairly well-known Pokemon? The overwhelming majority of you identified it correctly.

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4. Omca: psych med
   
   One of many trade names for the typical antipsychotic fluphenazine, a piperazine. More potent than Haldol, it's more widely known as Prolixin or Dapotum, both of which sounded too obviously drug-like. It's known to cause tardive dyskinesia (tics or other repetitive motions), possibly by damaging the dopamine receptors; ironically, doctors sometimes misidentify the symptoms of tardive dyskinesia as symptoms of schizophrenia, and add more antipsychotics, thereby increasing the damage and worsening the tics. Dear schizophrenia patients and their families: please read up on side effects, and don't be afraid to speak up for your loved ones if it looks like their meds are causing problems. Tardive dyskinesia is irreversible.

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5. Solian: psych med
   
   Selective dopamine antagonist (D2/D3 receptors, primarily), otherwise known as amisulpride, marketed by Sanofi-Aventis, though not available in the US. Don't OD on it; it's been linked to cardiac arrhythmias at high dosages.

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6. Dropletan: psych med
   
   Despite the stupid portmanteau-word-like name (which totally screams Pokemon to me), more than half of you correctly identified this as a psych med. It's a typical antipsychotic, otherwise known as Droperidol, and is more often used at low doses as an antiemetic (anti-vomiting) medication. It's also a histamine antagonist; histaminic side effects, like spasms, are controlled with Benadryl. Go figure.

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7. Arcanine: Pokemon
   
   The evolved form of Growlithe; it's one of the strongest Fire-type Pokemon. The name certainly sounded chemical to me (lots of hydrocarbon molecules end in -ine), but I guess the "canine" was a tip-off, as most of you identified it correctly.

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8. Navane: psych med
   
   Another one that I thought would be misleading, but wasn't. It's otherwise known as thiothixene, and has a beautiful structure worth commenting on. See that butterfly-like structure at the top of the image, with the sulfur atom in the centre ring? That's thioxanthene; the "thio-" prefix refers to the sulfur, which replaces the oxygen that's present at that place in an ordinary xanthene molecule. The ring with the two nitrogens on it is a piperazine, and the little sulfur-nitrogen-oxygen complex on the right that looks like a stick-figure guy is a sulfonamide functional group. Navane is the cis ("on the same side") isomer of thiothixene; I don't know if the trans isomer or a racemic mixture is used for anything.

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9. Rhydon: Pokemon
   
   That horn on its head spins like a drill, apparently. Yet another one that I thought would fool most people, because of the -on suffix, but the overwhelming majority of you got it right.

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10. Sentret: Pokemon
    
    Finally, I managed to find a Pokemon with a sufficiently confusing name! Most people thought Sentret was a drug, and apparently it's a paranoid mousy-looking thing which evolves into a weasel-like thing. Unlike the other Pokemon articles on Wikipedia, this one doesn't speculate as to the origin of the name, but my guess is that "Sentret" sounds a bit like "sentry"; perhaps it could be a name for a drug that keeps people alert and on guard, though that might be unwanted behaviour for an antipsychotic.

Okay, but who won?

Believe it or not, there's a three-way tie for first place. karine was the first person to get 8/10 correct. enochsmiles did so last night (with no help from me, I promise!), and espvivisection also picked up 8/10 this morning. (Nobody got the same 8 correct, though.) Quite a lot of you also got 7/10 correct.

I also have to give special recognition to vatine, who correctly identified all of the psych meds but misidentified a few of the Pokemon, and to ilcylic, who picked out all of the Pokemon but none of the psych meds whatsoever. ;)

Thanks for playing, everyone!