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
- James WoodruffDeep Cut85points
- Jamie Andres BeltranDeep Cut85points
- Jamie ArbuckleDeep Cut85points
- Jamie ChaffeyDeep Cut85points
- Jamie HepburnDeep Cut85points
- Jamie LanganDeep Cut85points
- Jamie SchmaleDeep Cut85points
- Jamie StoneDeep Cut85points
- Jamieson GreerDeep Cut85points
- Jamiilaa Simbiruu TusaaDeep Cut85points
- Jamil AbboudDeep Cut85points
- Jamil Al SayedDeep Cut85points
- Jamil Al-DehaisatDeep Cut85points
- Jamil JivaniDeep Cut85points
- Jamila AfifDeep Cut85points
- Jamila AmmiDeep Cut85points
- Jamila Mahmoud JumaDeep Cut85points
- Jamila SchäferDeep Cut85points
- Jamilu Yammama TukurDeep Cut85points
- Jamis AcostaDeep Cut85points
- Jamoliddin AbdullozodaDeep Cut85points
- Jamshid KhodjayevDeep Cut85points
- Jamshid KuchkarovDeep Cut85points
- Jamshid Qaim MaqamDeep Cut85points
- Jamus LimDeep Cut85points
- Jamyang NamgyalDeep Cut85points
- Jan Arie KoorevaarDeep Cut85points
- Jan BartošekDeep Cut85points
- Jan BauerDeep Cut85points
- Jan BerkiDeep Cut85points
- Jan BertelsDeep Cut85points
- Jan BurešDeep Cut85points
- Jan Christian VestreDeep Cut85points
- Jan de VilliersDeep Cut85points
- Jan DierenDeep Cut85points
- Jan EliasDeep Cut85points
- Jan FeserDeep Cut85points
- Jan FraitDeep Cut85points
- Jan GrabiecDeep Cut85points
- Jan GrulichDeep Cut85points
- Jan Hendrik van ThielDeep Cut85points
- Jan HerskovDeep Cut85points
- Jan HrnčířDeep Cut85points
- Jan JakobDeep Cut85points
- Jan JambonDeep Cut85points
- Jan KanthakDeep Cut85points
- Jan KrampeDeep Cut85points
- Jan Krzysztof ArdanowskiDeep Cut85points
- Jan KubíčekDeep Cut85points
- Jan LipavskýDeep 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.