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
- Carlos Alberto Martínez GonzálezDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alberto Mogollón GavidiaDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alberto Pantoja CortésDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alberto Puente SalasDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alberto Saraiva de Carvalho FonsecaDeep Cut85points
- Carlos AlbisuDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alexis CastilloDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alfonso Candelaria LópezDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alfonso Polanco RebolledaDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alfredo Pulley IturraldeDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Alonso Castillo PérezDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Antonio Fernandez OnofreDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Antonio Leyva IsaacDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Aragonés MendiguchíaDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Arrechea OrtizDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Arturo Madrazo SilvaDeep Cut85points
- Carlos BarbosaDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Bianchi ChelechDeep Cut85points
- Carlos CaballeroDeep Cut85points
- Carlos CaçãoDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Calderón GálvezDeep Cut85points
- Carlos CamyDeep Cut85points
- Carlos CanoDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Carvajal GallardoDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Carvallo SpaldingDeep Cut85points
- Carlos César Torres PáezDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Chandía AlarcónDeep Cut85points
- Carlos CheungDeep Cut85points
- Carlos ChiodiniDeep Cut85points
- Carlos CisnerosDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Cuadrado PratsDeep Cut85points
- Carlos CuerpoDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Daniel Amorin TenconiDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Daniel CastagnetoDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Domínguez HerreraDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Eduardo Arizabaleta CorralDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Eduardo Cordero MontoyaDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Eduardo Enríquez CaicedoDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Eduardo Guevara VillabónDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Eduardo Gutiérrez MancillaDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Edward Osorio AguiarDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Enrique Canturosas VillarrealDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Enrique Vargas QuijanoDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Ernesto Camargo AssisDeep Cut85points
- Carlos EspaDeep Cut85points
- Carlos FávaroDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Filomeno Agostinho das NevesDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Flores GuifarroDeep Cut85points
- Carlos GarcíaDeep Cut85points
- Carlos Godoy GarciaDeep 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.