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
- Maggie HassanRare60points
- Mahmoud AbbasRare60points
- Maria CantwellRare60points
- Marine Le PenRare60points
- Mark KellyRare60points
- Mark WarnerRare60points
- Markwayne MullinRare60points
- Marsha BlackburnRare60points
- Masoud PezeshkianRare60points
- Matteo RenziRare60points
- Matteo SalviniRare60points
- Maxine WatersRare60points
- Maxwell FrostRare60points
- Mehmet OzRare60points
- Mélanie JolyRare60points
- Mette FrederiksenRare60points
- Michael BennetRare60points
- Michael GoveRare60points
- Micheál MartinRare60points
- Miguel Díaz-CanelRare60points
- Mike HuckabeeRare60points
- Mike LeeRare60points
- Mike WaltzRare60points
- Mohammed bin SalmanRare60points
- Mojtaba KhameneiRare60points
- Nancy MaceRare60points
- NaruhitoRare60points
- Nawaz SharifRare60points
- Nayib BukeleRare60points
- Neil GorsuchRare60points
- Nigel FarageRare60points
- Nikol PashinyanRare60points
- Nirmala SitharamanRare60points
- Olaf ScholzRare60points
- Patty MurrayRare60points
- Paul BiyaRare60points
- Paul KagameRare60points
- Pauline HansonRare60points
- Pedro SánchezRare60points
- Penny WongRare60points
- Pete AguilarRare60points
- Péter MagyarRare60points
- Petro PoroshenkoRare60points
- Pierre PoilievreRare60points
- Prabowo SubiantoRare60points
- Pramila JayapalRare60points
- Priti PatelRare60points
- Priyanka Gandhi VadraRare60points
- Rahul GandhiRare60points
- Rand PaulRare60points
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.