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
- Jan Marten Willem SchalkwijkDeep Cut85points
- Jan MetzlerDeep Cut85points
- Jan Michał DziedziczakDeep Cut85points
- Jan MosińskiDeep Cut85points
- Jan MuhammadDeep Cut85points
- Jan NolteDeep Cut85points
- Jan PapajanovskýDeep Cut85points
- Jan PaparegaDeep Cut85points
- Jan PaternotteDeep Cut85points
- Jan PirkDeep Cut85points
- Jan ProcházkaDeep Cut85points
- Jan RedmannDeep Cut85points
- Jan RichterDeep Cut85points
- Jan RiiseDeep Cut85points
- Jan Ruiter JordaanDeep Cut85points
- Jan SchakowskyDeep Cut85points
- Jan SchoonisDeep Cut85points
- Jan SílaDeep Cut85points
- Jan SkopečekDeep Cut85points
- Ján ŠothDeep Cut85points
- Jan StruijsDeep Cut85points
- Jan SvatoňDeep Cut85points
- Jan SvitákDeep Cut85points
- Jan ThompsonDeep Cut85points
- Jan TinettiDeep Cut85points
- Jan Uffe RasmussenDeep Cut85points
- Jan van AkenDeep Cut85points
- Jan van WykDeep Cut85points
- Jan WarzechaDeep Cut85points
- Jan Wenzel SchmidtDeep Cut85points
- Jan WintrDeep Cut85points
- Jan-Marco LuczakDeep Cut85points
- Jan-Niclas GesenhuesDeep Cut85points
- Jan-Wilhelm PohlmannDeep Cut85points
- Jana BačíkováDeep Cut85points
- Jana BerkovcováDeep Cut85points
- Jana Bittó CigánikováDeep Cut85points
- Jana ČernochováDeep Cut85points
- Jana DemjanováDeep Cut85points
- Jana FilipovičováDeep Cut85points
- Jana HanzlíkováDeep Cut85points
- Jana KrutákováDeep Cut85points
- Jana Mračková VildumetzováDeep Cut85points
- Jana MurováDeep Cut85points
- Jana PastuchováDeep Cut85points
- Jana PatkováDeep Cut85points
- Jana SimanovskaDeep Cut85points
- Jana StewartDeep Cut85points
- Jana Zwyrtek HamplováDeep Cut85points
- Janak Raj GiriDeep 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.