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
- Takashi KoyariDeep Cut85points
- Takashi ŌtsukaDeep Cut85points
- Takashi TsukasaDeep Cut85points
- Takashi YamashitaDeep Cut85points
- Takayoshi KuromiyaDeep Cut85points
- Takayuki KobayashiDeep Cut85points
- Takayuki OchiaiDeep Cut85points
- Takdir RahmadiDeep Cut85points
- Takeaki MatsumotoDeep Cut85points
- Takehiro FunakoshiDeep Cut85points
- Takemitsu OkushitaDeep Cut85points
- Takeshi AkamatsuDeep Cut85points
- Takeshi IwayaDeep Cut85points
- Takeshi NomaDeep Cut85points
- Takeshi ŌsugaDeep Cut85points
- Takeshi SaikiDeep Cut85points
- Takeshi ShinaDeep Cut85points
- Takeyuki WatanabeDeep Cut85points
- Takiddine YoussoufDeep Cut85points
- Takis TheodorikakosDeep Cut85points
- Takiyuddin HassanDeep Cut85points
- Tako Van PoptaDeep Cut85points
- Taku EtoDeep Cut85points
- Taku IkeshitaDeep Cut85points
- Taku IshiiDeep Cut85points
- Taku NemotoDeep Cut85points
- Taku OtsukaDeep Cut85points
- Taku YamazoeDeep Cut85points
- Takuma MiyajiDeep Cut85points
- Takumi HayashiDeep Cut85points
- Takumi IharaDeep Cut85points
- Takumi ShibataDeep Cut85points
- Takumi SuzukiDeep Cut85points
- Takuo KomoriDeep Cut85points
- Tākuta FerrisDeep Cut85points
- Takuya HiraiDeep Cut85points
- Talal Al SharfatDeep Cut85points
- Talal Al-NasourDeep Cut85points
- Talal al-SharifDeep Cut85points
- Talal bin Sulaiman bin Habib Al RahbiDeep Cut85points
- Talal ChaudhryDeep Cut85points
- Talantbek SoltobaevDeep Cut85points
- Talat DinçerDeep Cut85points
- Talat XhaferiDeep Cut85points
- Taleb Mohamed ChérifDeep Cut85points
- Taleeb NoormohamedDeep Cut85points
- Talef Fitihawek EndeshawDeep Cut85points
- Taleh KazimovDeep Cut85points
- Tali GotlivDeep Cut85points
- Talíria PetroneDeep 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.