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
- M'hamed AbdelhakDeep Cut85points
- M'hamed El OillafDeep Cut85points
- Ma EunhyeokDeep Cut85points
- Ma Wen-chunDeep Cut85points
- Ma Yung-chenDeep Cut85points
- Ma ZhaoxuDeep Cut85points
- Ma. del Carmen Cabrera LagunasDeep Cut85points
- Ma. Leonor Noyola CervantesDeep Cut85points
- Ma. Lorena García Jimeno AlcocerDeep Cut85points
- Maaike De VreeseDeep Cut85points
- Maakgalake PholwaneDeep Cut85points
- Maala Zahrah LuyirikaDeep Cut85points
- Maalainine Ould EyihDeep Cut85points
- Maaret CastrénDeep Cut85points
- Maarten GoudzwaardDeep Cut85points
- Mabel ChinomonaDeep Cut85points
- Mabkhoot bin MadhiDeep Cut85points
- Mabon ap GwynforDeep Cut85points
- Mabrouka OkiDeep Cut85points
- Mabulala MasekoDeep Cut85points
- Macarena Montesinos de MiguelDeep Cut85points
- Macarena Santelices CañasDeep Cut85points
- Macdonald NkabikaDeep Cut85points
- Macedonio Vargas GabrielDeep Cut85points
- Machele Mohamed SoudDeep Cut85points
- Machok Majong JongDeep Cut85points
- Maciej BandoDeep Cut85points
- Maciej BerekDeep Cut85points
- Maciej DuszczykDeep Cut85points
- Maciej GdulaDeep Cut85points
- Maciej KoniecznyDeep Cut85points
- Maciej LasekDeep Cut85points
- Maciej MałeckiDeep Cut85points
- Maciej MiłkowskiDeep Cut85points
- Maciej TomczykiewiczDeep Cut85points
- Maciej WróbelDeep Cut85points
- Macit KaraahmetoğluDeep Cut85points
- Maciu KatamotuDeep Cut85points
- Mackenzie KiritomeDeep Cut85points
- Madalena CordeiroDeep Cut85points
- Madalena Pita EmilionDeep Cut85points
- Madalitso Chidumu BaloyiDeep Cut85points
- Madan Krishna ShresthaDeep Cut85points
- Madan Kumari Shah (Garima)Deep Cut85points
- Madan RathoreDeep Cut85points
- Maddalena MorganteDeep Cut85points
- Maddalena MuccioliDeep Cut85points
- Maddila GurumoorthyDeep Cut85points
- Madelayis Perez PeñaDeep Cut85points
- Madeleine ChenetteDeep 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.