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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
- Abdurahmon AbdurahmonzodaDeep Cut85points
- Abduramane TureDeep Cut85points
- Abdurashed Abdilahi AhmedDeep Cut85points
- Abdurrahim FıratDeep Cut85points
- Abdurrahman BabacanDeep Cut85points
- Abdurrahman Baddah Al-MutairiDeep Cut85points
- Abdurrahman Kawu SumailaDeep Cut85points
- Abdurrahman MustafaDeep Cut85points
- Abdus SalamDeep Cut85points
- Abdus Salam AzadDeep Cut85points
- Abdus Salam PintuDeep Cut85points
- Abdus SattarDeep Cut85points
- Abdusemed Hussen AboDeep Cut85points
- Abduwas AbdulahiDeep Cut85points
- Abe Mkheal NdraDeep Cut85points
- Abeba Sadik BuserDeep Cut85points
- Abebaw Desalew BayablDeep Cut85points
- Abed Al Rahman Al BaqaiDeep Cut85points
- Abed al-Rahman Abu Zara'aDeep Cut85points
- Abed Alrahman Al AdwanDeep Cut85points
- Abed HishoonoDeep Cut85points
- Abed-Nego BandimDeep Cut85points
- Abedin ZymberiDeep Cut85points
- Abeer Al‐Sayed Mahmoud HanafiDeep Cut85points
- Abeer AttallaDeep Cut85points
- Abeer Esawy DawoodDeep Cut85points
- Abeer Fath Allah RakhaDeep Cut85points
- Abeer GamalDeep Cut85points
- Abeer NassarDeep Cut85points
- Abeer RamahiDeep Cut85points
- Abeja Susan JollyDeep Cut85points
- Abel Bom JesusDeep Cut85points
- Abel Cecilie Knibe KroglundDeep Cut85points
- Abel ChiconiDeep Cut85points
- Abel Enrique Prieto JiménezDeep Cut85points
- Abel Epalanga ChivukuvukuDeep Cut85points
- Abel Xavier Nzuzi LubotaDeep Cut85points
- Abelardo de la EspriellaDeep Cut85points
- Abelardo FerránDeep Cut85points
- Abelardo Pinto MoscosoDeep Cut85points
- Abena Oppong-AsareDeep Cut85points
- Abena Osei AsareDeep Cut85points
- Aber LillianDeep Cut85points
- Abere Adamu TeferiDeep Cut85points
- Abhay Kumar SinhaDeep Cut85points
- Abhijit GangopadhyayDeep Cut85points
- Abhishek BanerjeeDeep Cut85points
- Abhishek Manu SinghviDeep Cut85points
- Abhishek Pratap ShahDeep Cut85points
- Abhisit VejjajivaDeep 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.