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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
- Christine BlowerDeep Cut85points
- Christine Bonfanti-DossatDeep Cut85points
- Christine BostDeep Cut85points
- Christine Bulliard-MarbachDeep Cut85points
- Christine CrawleyDeep Cut85points
- Christine EngrandDeep Cut85points
- Christine HerzogDeep Cut85points
- Christine HumphreysDeep Cut85points
- Christine JardineDeep Cut85points
- Christine KangalooDeep Cut85points
- Christine LagerDeep Cut85points
- Christine LangenfeldDeep Cut85points
- Christine LavardeDeep Cut85points
- Christine Le NabourDeep Cut85points
- Christine LoirDeep Cut85points
- Christine MuhongayireDeep Cut85points
- Christine Nabol PeterDeep Cut85points
- Christine Nakwang TuboDeep Cut85points
- Christine NormandinDeep Cut85points
- Christine OmbakaDeep Cut85points
- Christine Pirès BeauneDeep Cut85points
- Christine Schwarz-FuchsDeep Cut85points
- Christine TeunissenDeep Cut85points
- Christine ThellmannDeep Cut85points
- Christine TorettiDeep Cut85points
- Christine ǁHoebesDeep Cut85points
- Christobel NontenjaDeep Cut85points
- Christodoulos PatsalidisDeep Cut85points
- Christodoulos StefanadisDeep Cut85points
- Christofer BergenblockDeep Cut85points
- Christofer RanzmaierDeep Cut85points
- Christoffer Aagaard MelsonDeep Cut85points
- Christoffer IngoDeep Cut85points
- Christoph BirghanDeep Cut85points
- Christoph D'HaeseDeep Cut85points
- Christoph de VriesDeep Cut85points
- Christoph FrauenpreißDeep Cut85points
- Christoph GrabenwarterDeep Cut85points
- Christoph GrimmDeep Cut85points
- Christoph HerbstDeep Cut85points
- Christoph IsrangDeep Cut85points
- Christoph MatznetterDeep Cut85points
- Christoph NaserDeep Cut85points
- Christoph PloßDeep Cut85points
- Christoph PramhoferDeep Cut85points
- Christoph RetzlaffDeep Cut85points
- Christoph RinerDeep Cut85points
- Christoph SchmidDeep Cut85points
- Christoph StarkDeep Cut85points
- Christoph SteinerDeep 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.