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
- John Dahmasing SalongDeep Cut85points
- John DarkoDeep Cut85points
- John DaviesDeep Cut85points
- John Dean KukuDeep Cut85points
- John Deng ObanyDeep Cut85points
- John Dour Ngor DourDeep Cut85points
- John DumeloDeep Cut85points
- John E. WeinerhallDeep Cut85points
- John EatwellDeep Cut85points
- John Edgar Pérez RojasDeep Cut85points
- John Edickson Amaya RodríguezDeep Cut85points
- John Edison Polanco LaraDeep Cut85points
- John Eduardo Mino RazoDeep Cut85points
- John EisenbergDeep Cut85points
- John FinucaneDeep Cut85points
- John FullerDeep Cut85points
- John Gai YohDeep Cut85points
- John GaramendiDeep Cut85points
- John GarcíaDeep Cut85points
- John GardinerDeep Cut85points
- John Gatnyai ThotDeep Cut85points
- John GiordanoDeep Cut85points
- John Gitonga Mwaniki MukunjiDeep Cut85points
- John GlenDeep Cut85points
- John GradyDeep Cut85points
- John GrechDeep Cut85points
- John GummerDeep Cut85points
- John HannettDeep Cut85points
- John HayesDeep Cut85points
- John HealeyDeep Cut85points
- John HendyDeep Cut85points
- John HlopheDeep Cut85points
- John HoevenDeep Cut85points
- John Humphrey Arnott PakingtonDeep Cut85points
- John HurleyDeep Cut85points
- John HuttonDeep Cut85points
- John Inyang OkoroDeep Cut85points
- John JamesDeep Cut85points
- John JeremieDeep Cut85points
- John JinaporDeep Cut85points
- John Jock JakyomDeep Cut85points
- John Jok CholDeep Cut85points
- John JosephDeep Cut85points
- John JovanovicDeep Cut85points
- John JoyceDeep Cut85points
- John Juyol YualDeep Cut85points
- John Kanyuithia MutungaDeep Cut85points
- John KaupaDeep Cut85points
- John KerrDeep Cut85points
- John Kiarie WaweruDeep 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.