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
- Richard Nilson Lopez MartinezDeep Cut85points
- Richard O'DonoghueDeep Cut85points
- Richard PorterDeep Cut85points
- Richard QuigleyDeep Cut85points
- Richárd RákDeep Cut85points
- Richard RamoeletsiDeep Cut85points
- Richard RamosDeep Cut85points
- Richard RapuDeep Cut85points
- Richard RašiDeep Cut85points
- Richard Riot JaemDeep Cut85points
- Richard SnowdenDeep Cut85points
- Richard SpringDeep Cut85points
- Richard TakáčDeep Cut85points
- Richard TiceDeep Cut85points
- Richard VanlalhmangaihaDeep Cut85points
- Richard WagnerDeep Cut85points
- Richard WalkerDeep Cut85points
- Richard WaltersDeep Cut85points
- Richard Yegon KipkemoiDeep Cut85points
- Richmond Edem Kofi KpotosuDeep Cut85points
- Rick AllenDeep Cut85points
- Rick CrawfordDeep Cut85points
- Rick FoxDeep Cut85points
- Rick HouDeep Cut85points
- Rick LarsenDeep Cut85points
- Rick SimpsonDeep Cut85points
- Rick Tchamako MaheDeep Cut85points
- Rickard NordinDeep Cut85points
- Ricklef Johannes BeutinDeep Cut85points
- Ricky CanteroDeep Cut85points
- Ricky Fuo'oDeep Cut85points
- Ricky MorrisDeep Cut85points
- Ricky SuhendarDeep Cut85points
- Ricky VriesDeep Cut85points
- Rida KhawaldehDeep Cut85points
- Ridhiwani KikweteDeep Cut85points
- Ridouane ChahidDeep Cut85points
- Riduan RubinDeep Cut85points
- Ridwan Hirsi MohamedDeep Cut85points
- Rie SaitōDeep Cut85points
- Rie SasakiDeep Cut85points
- Riek Gai KokDeep Cut85points
- Riek Maniel AyuelDeep Cut85points
- Riek Puok RuachDeep Cut85points
- Rieke Diah PitalokaDeep Cut85points
- Rieu Gatlier Gai ChanDeep Cut85points
- Rigel Marcos Sergent ViloriaDeep Cut85points
- Rigobert MaboundouDeep Cut85points
- Rihab al-GhulDeep Cut85points
- Riham Abdel NabyDeep 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.