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
- Michael Simon Victor de la BastideDeep Cut85points
- Michael SpencerDeep Cut85points
- Michaël TaverneDeep Cut85points
- Michael ThewsDeep Cut85points
- Michael TöngiDeep Cut85points
- Michael TusiimeDeep Cut85points
- Michael WalkerDeep Cut85points
- Michael WannerDeep Cut85points
- Michaël WeberDeep Cut85points
- Michael WheelerDeep Cut85points
- Michael WillsDeep Cut85points
- Michael WrightDeep Cut85points
- Michaela BiancofioreDeep Cut85points
- Michaela HübschleDeep Cut85points
- Michaela KopumiDeep Cut85points
- Michaela ŘehkováDeep Cut85points
- Michaela SchmidtDeep Cut85points
- Michaela ŠebelováDeep Cut85points
- Michaelia CashDeep Cut85points
- Michaił OrdaDeep Cut85points
- Michail RusyDeep Cut85points
- Michał BaranowskiDeep Cut85points
- Michal BartoňDeep Cut85points
- Michal BobekDeep Cut85points
- Michał CieślakDeep Cut85points
- Michał CyganDeep Cut85points
- Michał GramatykaDeep Cut85points
- Michał JachDeep Cut85points
- Michał JarosDeep Cut85points
- Michał KamińskiDeep Cut85points
- Michał KołodziejczakDeep Cut85points
- Michał KowalskiDeep Cut85points
- Michał KrawczykDeep Cut85points
- Michal KučeraDeep Cut85points
- Michał MoskalDeep Cut85points
- Michał PołuboczekDeep Cut85points
- Michał PyrzykDeep Cut85points
- Michal RatiborskýDeep Cut85points
- Michal ShirDeep Cut85points
- Michal ŠimečkaDeep Cut85points
- Michal Slawny CababiaDeep Cut85points
- Michal WaldigerDeep Cut85points
- Michał WawerDeep Cut85points
- Michał WójcikDeep Cut85points
- Michał WośDeep Cut85points
- Michal ZunaDeep Cut85points
- Michalis ChourdakisDeep Cut85points
- Michalis ChrysochoidisDeep Cut85points
- Michalis DamianosDeep Cut85points
- Michalis FellasDeep 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.