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
- Caridad Meyvis Estévez EchevarríaDeep Cut85points
- Carin LobbezooDeep Cut85points
- Carina GarlandDeep Cut85points
- Carina ÖrgårdDeep Cut85points
- Carina PicenoDeep Cut85points
- Carina ReiterDeep Cut85points
- Carina SchießlDeep Cut85points
- Carine LeroyDeep Cut85points
- Carl AndriamparanyDeep Cut85points
- Carl BatesDeep Cut85points
- Carl GreylingDeep Cut85points
- Carl NordblomDeep Cut85points
- Carl ValentinDeep Cut85points
- Carl Wiktor SvenssonDeep Cut85points
- Carl XVI GustafDeep Cut85points
- Carl-Oskar BohlinDeep Cut85points
- Carl-Philipp SassenrathDeep Cut85points
- Carla BarrosDeep Cut85points
- Carla Delgado GómezDeep Cut85points
- Carla DenyerDeep Cut85points
- Carla DicksonDeep Cut85points
- Carla Echevarria GutierrezDeep Cut85points
- Carla GiulianoDeep Cut85points
- Carla LockhartDeep Cut85points
- Carla LouveiraDeep Cut85points
- Carla Maria Domingas CativaDeep Cut85points
- Carla Maria Leitão Ribeiro de SousaDeep Cut85points
- Carla MoonenDeep Cut85points
- Carla Morales RojasDeep Cut85points
- Cárlenton DávilaDeep Cut85points
- Carles Enseñat ReigDeep Cut85points
- Carlo Arqueros PizarroDeep Cut85points
- Carlo CalendaDeep Cut85points
- Carlo Diaz SanchezDeep Cut85points
- Carlo MaccariDeep Cut85points
- Carlo NordioDeep Cut85points
- Carlo RubbiaDeep Cut85points
- Carlo SommarugaDeep Cut85points
- Carlos A. GiménezDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Abreu AmorimDeep Cut85points
- Carlos AfúDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alberto AlmenaDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alberto Benavides MoraDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alberto Cuenca ChauxDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alberto Gamarra ManzabelDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alberto Gavilánez MuñozDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alberto GonçalvesDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alberto Gregorio Dos SantosDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alberto Guevara GarzaDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alberto LinaresDeep 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.