What are your pet peeves in social situations?

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If it's any consolation, it has been my experience that your #1 is not a mind game, but a misunderstanding. Either you've misunderstood the context of their question, or they've misunderstood the context of the answer. Like if someone asked "where are you from" and you start listing all the places you lived, but they meant "what is your heritage". (lazy example, hopefully it conveys the idea) Not everyone is adept with words, and sometimes what they mean to ask doesn't get communicated as clearly as could ideally be - and when the answer doesn't match the question they asked, as they see it, the got an answer that didn't match the intent of their question.

Same goes for "that tells me nothing". It usually means someone didn't understand the intent of the question asked or the answer given, and while information was provided, it didn't answer the intended question. I usually remedy either of the above by saying "sorry then, I seem to have missed the intent of your question - what sort of answer were you expecting?" - and give a revised answer based on additional context - or, if it didn't help, simply say I dunno what else to tell them then. But rest assured, it's generally not intended as a mind game or to wind you up.

Unfortunately, people who have grown up around highly manipulative people tend to assume that everything is a mind game and that genuine misunderstandings are rare.

This is true whether or not the people around them were genuinely manipulative. If someone has always had the attitude that those around them are manipulative, they're likely to operate from the assumption that everyone is playing mind games, even if that's not actually true.