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
- Salvador ChacónDeep Cut85points
- Salvador de Foronda VaqueroDeep Cut85points
- Salvador MansellDeep Cut85points
- Salvador Padilla VillanuevaDeep Cut85points
- Salvador Valdés MesaDeep Cut85points
- Salvador Vidal VarelaDeep Cut85points
- Salvatore CaiataDeep Cut85points
- Salvatore DeiddaDeep Cut85points
- Salvatore Marcello Di MattinaDeep Cut85points
- Salvatore SallemiDeep Cut85points
- Salvo PoglieseDeep Cut85points
- Salwa Bakony MantuilDeep Cut85points
- Salyn BuzarquisDeep Cut85points
- Sam Basil Jr.Deep Cut85points
- Sam BirrellDeep Cut85points
- Sam BrownDeep Cut85points
- Sam CarlingDeep Cut85points
- Sam EngolaDeep Cut85points
- Sam GravesDeep Cut85points
- Sam KawaleDeep Cut85points
- Sam LiccardoDeep Cut85points
- Sam LimDeep Cut85points
- Sam MatekaneDeep Cut85points
- Sam MostynDeep Cut85points
- Sam RaeDeep Cut85points
- Sam RowlandsDeep Cut85points
- Sam RushworthDeep Cut85points
- Sam TansonDeep Cut85points
- Sam UffindellDeep Cut85points
- Sam Van RooyDeep Cut85points
- Samaa SolimanDeep Cut85points
- Samad SeyidovDeep Cut85points
- Samadou OusmanDeep Cut85points
- Samah HamadDeep Cut85points
- Samaila Dahuwa KailaDeep Cut85points
- Samal DugginsDeep Cut85points
- Samanmali GunasinghaDeep Cut85points
- Samantha DixonDeep Cut85points
- Samantha GrahamDeep Cut85points
- Samantha JonesDeep Cut85points
- Samantha Louise JobDeep Cut85points
- Samantha Margarita Garza de la GarzaDeep Cut85points
- Samantha MarshallDeep Cut85points
- Samantha NiblettDeep Cut85points
- Samantha VidyaratnaDeep Cut85points
- Samar Abdel WahedDeep Cut85points
- Samar Haroon BilourDeep Cut85points
- Samaria dos Anjos Filemon TovelaDeep Cut85points
- Samart RangsanDeep Cut85points
- Samba DioufDeep 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.