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
- Shiv Pal Singh PatelDeep Cut85points
- Shiv Shankar YadavDeep Cut85points
- Shivaji Bandappa KalgeDeep Cut85points
- Shivani RajaDeep Cut85points
- Shivanna SamDeep Cut85points
- Shivesh KumarDeep Cut85points
- Shivmangal Singh TomarDeep Cut85points
- Shivraj Singh ChouhanDeep Cut85points
- Shizuka TerataDeep Cut85points
- Shizuo YamashitaDeep Cut85points
- Shlomo KarhiDeep Cut85points
- Shobha BachhavDeep Cut85points
- Shobha KarandlajeDeep Cut85points
- Shobha KhanalDeep Cut85points
- Shobhanaben Mahendrasinh BaraiyaDeep Cut85points
- Shōbun NittaDeep Cut85points
- Shockat AdamDeep Cut85points
- Shōgo AzemotoDeep Cut85points
- Shōhei NiimiDeep Cut85points
- Shohidul IslamDeep Cut85points
- Shoichi UsuiDeep Cut85points
- Shōji MaitachiDeep Cut85points
- Shoji NishidaDeep Cut85points
- Shojiro HiranumaDeep Cut85points
- Shoka Khamis JumaDeep Cut85points
- Shoko SakuraiDeep Cut85points
- Sholban Kara-oolDeep Cut85points
- Shomari FiguresDeep Cut85points
- Shónagh Ní RaghallaighDeep Cut85points
- Shontel BrownDeep Cut85points
- Shota BerekashviliDeep Cut85points
- Shōta GotōDeep Cut85points
- Shota KhabareliDeep Cut85points
- Showkatul IslamDeep Cut85points
- Shōzō KudōDeep Cut85points
- Shraddha Kunwar ChhetriDeep Cut85points
- Shree ChandrashekharDeep Cut85points
- Shreedhar PokhrelDeep Cut85points
- Shreekrishna Prasad AdhikariDeep Cut85points
- Shreyas M PatelDeep Cut85points
- Shri ThanedarDeep Cut85points
- Shrikant ShindeDeep Cut85points
- Shripad NaikDeep Cut85points
- Shrirang BarneDeep Cut85points
- Shristi BhattaraiDeep Cut85points
- Shriti VaderaDeep Cut85points
- Shuaibu AuduDeep Cut85points
- Shuaibu Isa LauDeep Cut85points
- Shuaibu SalisuDeep Cut85points
- Shuhei AoyamaDeep 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.