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
- Dario FranceschiniDeep Cut85points
- Dario GiagoniDeep Cut85points
- Darío GilDeep Cut85points
- Dario HrebakDeep Cut85points
- Dario IaiaDeep Cut85points
- Dario ParriniDeep Cut85points
- Darío SchneiderDeep Cut85points
- Dario SeifertDeep Cut85points
- Dario ZurovecDeep Cut85points
- Darius JakavičiusDeep Cut85points
- Darius RazmislevičiusDeep Cut85points
- Dariusz KlimczakDeep Cut85points
- Dariusz MateckiDeep Cut85points
- Dariusz MazurDeep Cut85points
- Dariusz PiontkowskiDeep Cut85points
- Dariusz StefaniukDeep Cut85points
- Dariusz WieczorekDeep Cut85points
- Darko BabaljDeep Cut85points
- Darko DragovićDeep Cut85points
- Darko GlisicDeep Cut85points
- Darko KlasićDeep Cut85points
- Darko RatajcDeep Cut85points
- Darko SobotaDeep Cut85points
- Darlene BerberabeDeep Cut85points
- Darlenis Urquiola GuerreroDeep Cut85points
- Darline Graham NordoneDeep Cut85points
- Darmadi DuriantoDeep Cut85points
- Darmapriya WijesingheDeep Cut85points
- Darmarajen NagalingumDeep Cut85points
- Daroga Prasad SarojDeep Cut85points
- Darragh O'BrienDeep Cut85points
- Darrell AllaharDeep Cut85points
- Darrell IssaDeep Cut85points
- Darrell OwensDeep Cut85points
- Darren BergmanDeep Cut85points
- Darren CarabottDeep Cut85points
- Darren ChesterDeep Cut85points
- Darren FisherDeep Cut85points
- Darren JonesDeep Cut85points
- Darren MillarDeep Cut85points
- Darren MottDeep Cut85points
- Darren O'RourkeDeep Cut85points
- Darren PaffeyDeep Cut85points
- Darren SotoDeep Cut85points
- Darren WelchDeep Cut85points
- Darron LloydDeep Cut85points
- Darron PickstockDeep Cut85points
- Darryl DavidDeep Cut85points
- Darryl NirenbergDeep Cut85points
- Darshan PunshiDeep 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.