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
- Valdis KārkliņšDeep Cut85points
- Valdis KotānsDeep Cut85points
- Valdo RandpereDeep Cut85points
- Valdrack Ludwing JaentschkeDeep Cut85points
- Valens MuhakwaDeep Cut85points
- Valentin BagorikundaDeep Cut85points
- Valentin GechevskiDeep Cut85points
- Valentin HajdinjakDeep Cut85points
- Valentin MilushevDeep Cut85points
- Valentin MundrovDeep Cut85points
- Valentin PetrovDeep Cut85points
- Valentin RomanDeep Cut85points
- Valentin RybakovDeep Cut85points
- Valentin SemenyakoDeep Cut85points
- Valentin Stanislavovich KostyushinDeep Cut85points
- Valentin ZellwegerDeep Cut85points
- Valentina BarzottiDeep Cut85points
- Valentina Becerra PeñaDeep Cut85points
- Valentina Cáceres MonsálvezDeep Cut85points
- Valentina Centeno ArteagaDeep Cut85points
- Valentina D'orsoDeep Cut85points
- Valentina GhioDeep Cut85points
- Valentina GrippoDeep Cut85points
- Valentina Ivanovna AvdeevaDeep Cut85points
- Valentina Ivanovna NovikovaDeep Cut85points
- Valentina MatviyenkoDeep Cut85points
- Valentina PivnenkoDeep Cut85points
- Valentina RaveraDeep Cut85points
- Valentina TereshkovaDeep Cut85points
- Valentina Vasilievna LavrikDeep Cut85points
- Valentina-Mariana AldeaDeep Cut85points
- Valentino ValentiniDeep Cut85points
- Valentinos FakontisDeep Cut85points
- Valentyn NalyvaichenkoDeep Cut85points
- Valentyna KorolenkoDeep Cut85points
- Valeri LachovskiDeep Cut85points
- Valeria SudanoDeep Cut85points
- Valeria ValenteDeep Cut85points
- Valerie AmosDeep Cut85points
- Valérie Bazin-MalgrasDeep Cut85points
- Valérie BoyerDeep Cut85points
- Valérie De BueDeep Cut85points
- Valerie FousheeDeep Cut85points
- Valerie LeeDeep Cut85points
- Valérie LétardDeep Cut85points
- Valérie Piller CarrardDeep Cut85points
- Valérie RossiDeep Cut85points
- Valerie VazDeep Cut85points
- Valerii SterniichukDeep Cut85points
- Valerii ZaluzhnyiDeep 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.