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
- Thomas BullDeep Cut85points
- Thomas BurgherrDeep Cut85points
- Thomas ByrneDeep Cut85points
- Thomas Christian PoulsenDeep Cut85points
- Thomas DanielsenDeep Cut85points
- Thomas de CourtenDeep Cut85points
- Thomas DietzDeep Cut85points
- Thomas DossusDeep Cut85points
- Thomas DrewDeep Cut85points
- Thomas ElianDeep Cut85points
- Thomas EreyitomiDeep Cut85points
- Thomas ErndlDeep Cut85points
- Thomas FetschDeep Cut85points
- Thomas FitschenDeep Cut85points
- Thomas GalbraithDeep Cut85points
- Thomas GassilloudDeep Cut85points
- Thomas GebhartDeep Cut85points
- Thomas GouldDeep Cut85points
- Thomas HeineDeep Cut85points
- Thomas HornDeep Cut85points
- Thomas HurterDeep Cut85points
- Thomas JarzombekDeep Cut85points
- Thomas KaracsonyDeep Cut85points
- Thomas Kean Jr.Deep Cut85points
- Thomas KerrDeep Cut85points
- Thomas KlimekDeep Cut85points
- Thomas KnuttiDeep Cut85points
- Thomas KorellDeep Cut85points
- Thomas KurzDeep Cut85points
- Thomas LadzinskiDeep Cut85points
- Thomas LamDeep Cut85points
- Thomas LambertDeep Cut85points
- Thomas LytteltonDeep Cut85points
- Thomas MatterDeep Cut85points
- Thomas MénagéDeep Cut85points
- Thomas MonbergDeep Cut85points
- Thomas MorellDeep Cut85points
- Thomas NorlingDeep Cut85points
- Thomas Nyarko AmpemDeep Cut85points
- Thomas OffenlochDeep Cut85points
- Thomas OpaDeep Cut85points
- Thomas PaulsDeep Cut85points
- Thomas PitfieldDeep Cut85points
- Thomas PortesDeep Cut85points
- Thomas RachelDeep Cut85points
- Thomas RagnarssonDeep Cut85points
- Thomas RechsteinerDeep Cut85points
- Thomas RehakDeep Cut85points
- Thomas RohdenDeep Cut85points
- Thomas RöwekampDeep 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.