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
- Shūhei KobayashiDeep Cut85points
- Shuhrat PolvonovDeep Cut85points
- Shuichi AkamatsuDeep Cut85points
- Shuichi TakatoriDeep Cut85points
- Shūji MiyamotoDeep Cut85points
- Shujjat Ali RathoreDeep Cut85points
- Shukhrat KholmukhamedovDeep Cut85points
- Shumi Ayano GutoDeep Cut85points
- Shunichi MakinoDeep Cut85points
- Shunichi MizuokaDeep Cut85points
- Shunichi SuzukiDeep Cut85points
- Shunichi TokuraDeep Cut85points
- Shunichi YamaguchiDeep Cut85points
- Shunmugam MoodleyDeep Cut85points
- Shunsuke TakeiDeep Cut85points
- Shurube Gemedi NunaDeep Cut85points
- Shūsaku IndōDeep Cut85points
- Shuvaloy MajumdarDeep Cut85points
- Shwe PonDeep Cut85points
- Shyamkumar Daulat BarveDeep Cut85points
- Sia AnagnostopoulouDeep Cut85points
- Sia JampathongDeep Cut85points
- Siale Akau‘olaDeep Cut85points
- Siamak RahpeykDeep Cut85points
- Siân BerryDeep Cut85points
- Siân GwenllianDeep Cut85points
- Sian MulhollandDeep Cut85points
- Siandou FofanaDeep Cut85points
- Siaosi SovaleniDeep Cut85points
- Siarhiej ChamienkaDeep Cut85points
- Siarhiej LawkovičDeep Cut85points
- Siarhiej SiviecDeep Cut85points
- Sibel ArslanDeep Cut85points
- Sibonelo NomvaloDeep Cut85points
- Sibylle Katharina SorgDeep Cut85points
- Sid Ali KhaldiDeep Cut85points
- Sid Ali ZerroukiDeep Cut85points
- Sid’Ahmed Ould BouhDeep Cut85points
- Sidi Ahmed Ould MohamedDeep Cut85points
- Sidi Mohamed RaliouDeep Cut85points
- Sidi Ould Baham Ould Mohamed LaghdafDeep Cut85points
- Sidi Tiémoko TouréDeep Cut85points
- Sidi Yahya Ould LemrabottDeep Cut85points
- Sidibé Dédéou OusmaneDeep Cut85points
- Sidibé Fatoumata KabaDeep Cut85points
- Sidique Abou-Bakarr WaiDeep Cut85points
- Sidney JustianaDeep Cut85points
- Sidney KamerzinDeep Cut85points
- Sidney LeiteDeep Cut85points
- Sidya Ould El HadjDeep 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.