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
- Mairéad FarrellDeep Cut85points
- Màiri McAllanDeep Cut85points
- Mairita LūseDeep Cut85points
- Mait KlaassenDeep Cut85points
- Maite del Carmen Levi CabelloDeep Cut85points
- Maitha Salem Al ShamsiDeep Cut85points
- Maizama AbdoulayeDeep Cut85points
- Maja Grba-BujevićDeep Cut85points
- Maja MorachaninDeep Cut85points
- Maja NowakDeep Cut85points
- Maja RinikerDeep Cut85points
- Maja VučelićDeep Cut85points
- Maja VukićevićDeep Cut85points
- Maja WallsteinDeep Cut85points
- Majak Agot AtemDeep Cut85points
- Majak Machar DolbaiDeep Cut85points
- Majda AdzovicDeep Cut85points
- Majda BurićDeep Cut85points
- Majdi al-HasanDeep Cut85points
- Majdi Hassan YassinDeep Cut85points
- Majed Al MaqablehDeep Cut85points
- Majed Al-HogailDeep Cut85points
- Majid Al-QasabiDeep Cut85points
- Majid AnsariDeep Cut85points
- Majid BasirpourDeep Cut85points
- Majid DagheriDeep Cut85points
- Majid DostaliDeep Cut85points
- Majid NasiraeiDeep Cut85points
- Majlinda DhukaDeep Cut85points
- Majnun MammadovDeep Cut85points
- Majok Dau Chol LakDeep Cut85points
- Majok Dut MuorwelDeep Cut85points
- Majok Mading DairDeep Cut85points
- Majok Yak MajokDeep Cut85points
- Majur Babur AjalaDeep Cut85points
- Maka BochorishviliDeep Cut85points
- Makali Benson MuluDeep Cut85points
- Makame MbarawaDeep Cut85points
- Makario TaginiDeep Cut85points
- Makarios LazaridisDeep Cut85points
- Makashule GanaDeep Cut85points
- Makatleho MotsoaseleDeep Cut85points
- Maker Thiong MaalDeep Cut85points
- Makhdoom Jamil uz ZamanDeep Cut85points
- Makhdoom Syed Sami-ul-Hassan GillaniDeep Cut85points
- Makhdoom Tahir Rashid Ud DinDeep Cut85points
- Makhdoom Zain Hussain QureshiDeep Cut85points
- Makhosazana RadebeDeep Cut85points
- Maki Esther Ortiz DomínguezDeep Cut85points
- Makiko DōgomiDeep 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.