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
- Ruth MackenzieDeep Cut85points
- Ruth Mariann HopDeep Cut85points
- Ruth Maricela Silva AndracaDeep Cut85points
- Ruth MasakeDeep Cut85points
- Ruth Miriam Solano MamaniDeep Cut85points
- Ruth NamutaaweDeep Cut85points
- Ruth NankabirwaDeep Cut85points
- Ruth OdingaDeep Cut85points
- Ruth PorterDeep Cut85points
- Ruth RonnenDeep Cut85points
- Ruth SmeethDeep Cut85points
- Rutthaphon NaowaratDeep Cut85points
- Ruud VerkuijlenDeep Cut85points
- Ruwan MapalagamaDeep Cut85points
- Ruwan RanasingheDeep Cut85points
- Ruwan WijeweeraDeep Cut85points
- Ruwanthilaka JayakodyDeep Cut85points
- Ruweida OboDeep Cut85points
- Ruxandra CibuDeep Cut85points
- Ruy CarneiroDeep Cut85points
- Ružica VukovacDeep Cut85points
- Rwego NgarambeDeep Cut85points
- Rwngwra NarzaryDeep Cut85points
- Ryad MezzourDeep Cut85points
- Ryaga KrishnaiahDeep Cut85points
- Ryan BrathwaiteDeep Cut85points
- Ryan HamiltonDeep Cut85points
- Ryan MackenzieDeep Cut85points
- Ryan O'MearaDeep Cut85points
- Ryan PersaudDeep Cut85points
- Ryan RichardsDeep Cut85points
- Ryan SmithDeep Cut85points
- Ryan StraughnDeep Cut85points
- Ryan TurnbullDeep Cut85points
- Ryō FuzukiDeep Cut85points
- Ryō KōriyamaDeep Cut85points
- Ryō TakamiDeep Cut85points
- Ryohei IwataniDeep Cut85points
- Ryosei AkazawaDeep Cut85points
- Ryosei TanakaDeep Cut85points
- Ryosuke KozukiDeep Cut85points
- Ryōsuke YasunamiDeep Cut85points
- Ryota TakedaDeep Cut85points
- Ryotaro KonomiDeep Cut85points
- Ryotaro SuzukiDeep Cut85points
- Ryszard BartosikDeep Cut85points
- Ryszard PetruDeep Cut85points
- Ryszard TerleckiDeep Cut85points
- Ryszard WilkDeep Cut85points
- Rytis PaulauskasDeep 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.