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
- Matthias MierschDeep Cut85points
- Matthias MievesDeep Cut85points
- Matthias MoosdorfDeep Cut85points
- Matthias RenaultDeep Cut85points
- Matthias RentzschDeep Cut85points
- Matthias TavelDeep Cut85points
- Matthias VollertDeep Cut85points
- Matthieu BlochDeep Cut85points
- Matthieu MarchioDeep Cut85points
- Matthieu PeyraudDeep Cut85points
- Matthijs WoltersDeep Cut85points
- Matti Sarfati HarkaviDeep Cut85points
- Matti VandemaeleDeep Cut85points
- Mattias AlmqvistDeep Cut85points
- Mattias Bäckström JohanssonDeep Cut85points
- Mattias Eriksson FalkDeep Cut85points
- Mattias JonssonDeep Cut85points
- Mattias KarlssonDeep Cut85points
- Mattias Karlsson BergmanDeep Cut85points
- Mattias TesfayeDeep Cut85points
- Mattias VepsäDeep Cut85points
- Mattie McGrathDeep Cut85points
- Matur Mayinde RiakDeep Cut85points
- Matúš Šutaj EštokDeep Cut85points
- Matvii BidnyiDeep Cut85points
- Maty Phen LangeDeep Cut85points
- Mau'u Siaosi Pu'epu'emaiDeep Cut85points
- Maud BregeonDeep Cut85points
- Maud PetitDeep Cut85points
- Mauga Precious ChangDeep Cut85points
- Maulid Said Abdallah MtuliaDeep Cut85points
- Maulvi Abdul Ali JihadiyarDeep Cut85points
- Maulvi Abdul KarimDeep Cut85points
- Maulvi Abdul Rahman HaqqaniDeep Cut85points
- Maulvi EnayatullahDeep Cut85points
- Maulvi Haseebullah HamidDeep Cut85points
- Maulvi Makhdoom Abdul Salam SaadatDeep Cut85points
- Maung Maung AyeDeep Cut85points
- Maung Maung OhnDeep Cut85points
- Maung ThinDeep Cut85points
- Maura GruberDeep Cut85points
- Maureen BurkeDeep Cut85points
- Maureen GwachamDeep Cut85points
- Maureen PughDeep Cut85points
- Mauri KontuDeep Cut85points
- Mauri PeltokangasDeep Cut85points
- Maurice Allogho NtossuiDeep Cut85points
- Maurice BauerDeep Cut85points
- Maurice BradleyDeep Cut85points
- Maurice CollinsDeep 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.