Krillion Recorded answers
36,048 recorded answers
How to approach it
The trick is to treat the prompt as a wide funnel rather than a popularity contest. Begin with the people you know best, then deliberately travel to countries whose politics rarely make headlines and reconstruct a name from a roster you remember. National legislatures publish member lists, so recall a chamber you have read about — a small assembly, a federal upper house, a coalition partner's bench — and pick a single sitting member. Verify mentally that the person holds office now, not a decade ago. Then consider the scoring logic: the puzzle rewards answers that many people can confirm but few will think of, so an accurate, verifiable name from an overlooked country beats a famous one almost every time.
Get a hint
Start at the very top of the executive ladder: heads of government, their deputies and the senior ministers who were in office this week.
A little more
Narrow by chamber instead: a single seat in a national legislature is enough, so think of backbenchers, whips and committee chairs as well as speakers.
One step further
Go for depth over fame: a member of a small national assembly or a junior minister in a country that rarely makes the news usually scores higher than a household-name premier.
Reveal answers 36,048
- Ian BothamDeep Cut85points
- Ian BoucardDeep Cut85points
- Ian BrossatDeep Cut85points
- Ian BurnettDeep Cut85points
- Ian ByrneDeep Cut85points
- Ian CameronDeep Cut85points
- Ian DuncanDeep Cut85points
- Ian Gooding-EdghillDeep Cut85points
- Ian HaylesDeep Cut85points
- Ian LaveryDeep Cut85points
- Ian Ling-StuckeyDeep Cut85points
- Ian LivingstonDeep Cut85points
- Ian Mario VassalloDeep Cut85points
- Ian McCollDeep Cut85points
- Ian MurrayDeep Cut85points
- Ian Pedro Carbonell KarellDeep Cut85points
- Ian RoomeDeep Cut85points
- Ian SollomDeep Cut85points
- Ian WilsonDeep Cut85points
- Ian WrigglesworthDeep Cut85points
- Iasonas FotilasDeep Cut85points
- Ibaseret JosephineDeep Cut85points
- Ibe OsonwaDeep Cut85points
- Iber Antonio Pino ObarrioDeep Cut85points
- Íber Maraví OlarteDeep Cut85points
- Ibis Niuba Villa MillánDeep Cut85points
- Ibragim FargiyevDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim Abdaibagi AkolDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim Abdi SaneyDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim Adam IbrahimDeep Cut85points
- İbrahim AkınDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim Al BdourDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim Al BusaidiDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim Al HawajDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim al-AbdullahDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim al-AliDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim Al-AssafDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim Al-HameidiDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim Al-JaziDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim Al-JbourDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim al-MohannadiDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim Al-NafeiDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim Al-QaralehDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim Al-SarairahDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim Al-ZabinDeep Cut85points
- İbrahim ArslanDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim at-TalibDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim BenliDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim BoughaliDeep Cut85points
- Ibrahim El MouhiDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here is driven by rarity rather than prominence. The single hundred-point answer, Michael Dobbs, sits alone at the top precisely because almost nobody else named that individual, while the enormous 85-point band contains tens of thousands of sitting members drawn from national chambers across every continent, from A B M Mosharrof Hossain and A. A. Rahim to Aaron Bean and Abdoulaye Diop. Those answers were correct, current and specific enough to satisfy the checker, yet common enough among players that they landed in the second tier. Below them, the 60-point group of 328 answers was presumably made up of figures who were either extremely well known, slightly stale in office, or generically described in a way that reduced their value. The lesson is blunt: a verifiable backbencher from a legislature nobody discusses is worth more than a prime minister everyone recognises, and a precise full name outperforms a vague one.