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
- Joel Santos EchavarriaDeep Cut85points
- Joel SsenyonyiDeep Cut85points
- Joel VillanuevaDeep Cut85points
- Joel YstebøDeep Cut85points
- Joel-Onowakpo ThomasDeep Cut85points
- Joelison Emanoela RakotoarimananaDeep Cut85points
- Joëlle MélinDeep Cut85points
- Joep WijnandsDeep Cut85points
- Joey SalcedaDeep Cut85points
- Jog Kumar Barbariya YadavDeep Cut85points
- Jogen MohanDeep Cut85points
- Johan AnderssonDeep Cut85points
- Johan BritzDeep Cut85points
- Johan BüserDeep Cut85points
- Johan DaneliusDeep Cut85points
- Johan DeckmynDeep Cut85points
- Johan DessingDeep Cut85points
- Johan ForssellDeep Cut85points
- Johan HallenborgDeep Cut85points
- Johan Jose Coraspe MattaDeep Cut85points
- Johan KvarnströmDeep Cut85points
- Johan PehrsonDeep Cut85points
- Johan StuartDeep Cut85points
- Johan TirelandDeep Cut85points
- Johana BermúdezDeep Cut85points
- Johana HernándezDeep Cut85points
- Johann HöfingerDeep Cut85points
- Johann MartelDeep Cut85points
- Johann Pall JohannssonDeep Cut85points
- Johann SaathoffDeep Cut85points
- Johann WadephulDeep Cut85points
- Johann WeberDeep Cut85points
- Johanna BaxterDeep Cut85points
- Johanna Betzabeth Arroyo BlancoDeep Cut85points
- Johanna Ebangha Agbor NtuiDeep Cut85points
- Johanna GapanyDeep Cut85points
- Johanna HaraldssonDeep Cut85points
- Johanna HolmdahlDeep Cut85points
- Johanna JachsDeep Cut85points
- Johanna MiesenbergerDeep Cut85points
- Johanna Ojala-NiemeläDeep Cut85points
- Johanna Ortega GhiringhelliDeep Cut85points
- Jóhanna Ösp EinarsdóttirDeep Cut85points
- Johanna RantsiDeep Cut85points
- Johanna Sabrina LongoDeep Cut85points
- Johannes FechnerDeep Cut85points
- Johannes GasserDeep Cut85points
- Johannes KoskinenDeep Cut85points
- Johannes LehneDeep Cut85points
- Johannes NakwafilaDeep 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.