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
- Buyaagiin TulgaDeep Cut85points
- Buyelwa SonjicaDeep Cut85points
- Bwalya Stanley Kasonde ChitiDeep Cut85points
- Byakatonda AbdulhuDeep Cut85points
- Byamukama FredDeep Cut85points
- Byamukama NuluDeep Cut85points
- Byamukama RogersDeep Cut85points
- Byanyima NathanDeep Cut85points
- Byibesho SamDeep Cut85points
- Byreddy ShabariDeep Cut85points
- Byron CamilleriDeep Cut85points
- Byron DaviesDeep Cut85points
- Byron Obregón CastañedaDeep Cut85points
- Byron Rodríguez PalaciosDeep Cut85points
- Byuma Oswald DezDeep Cut85points
- Bzuayehu DegefuDeep Cut85points
- C M RameshDeep Cut85points
- C N AnnaduraiDeep Cut85points
- C N ManjunathDeep Cut85points
- C. P. RadhakrishnanDeep Cut85points
- C. R. PatilDeep Cut85points
- C. Robert BruceDeep Cut85points
- C. Sadanandan MasterDeep Cut85points
- C.A.H. van de SandenDeep Cut85points
- Cabo Gilberto SilvaDeep Cut85points
- Cabral LibiiDeep Cut85points
- Cadet BenjaminDeep Cut85points
- Caguor Aduong ManyangDeep Cut85points
- Cai DafengDeep Cut85points
- Cai Parry-JonesDeep Cut85points
- Cai QiDeep Cut85points
- Cai RunDeep Cut85points
- Cai YinzhouDeep Cut85points
- Caifardine ManasseDeep Cut85points
- Caleb Amisi LuyaiDeep Cut85points
- Caleb Mutiso MuleDeep Cut85points
- Caleb NavarroDeep Cut85points
- Călin GrozaDeep Cut85points
- Călin-Gheorghe MatieșDeep Cut85points
- Călin-Petru MarianDeep Cut85points
- Calinie MbarushimanaDeep Cut85points
- Calixte Batossie MadjoulbaDeep Cut85points
- Calixte GanongoDeep Cut85points
- Calliope VettaDeep Cut85points
- Callista GingrichDeep Cut85points
- Callum AndersonDeep Cut85points
- Calogero PisanoDeep Cut85points
- Calum KerrDeep Cut85points
- Calum MillerDeep Cut85points
- Calvin BaileyDeep 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.