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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
- David TorranceDeep Cut85points
- David TshereDeep Cut85points
- David UmahiDeep Cut85points
- David ValadaoDeep Cut85points
- David van WeelDeep Cut85points
- David VitezyDeep Cut85points
- David VlajcicDeep Cut85points
- David WakikonaDeep Cut85points
- David WalkerDeep Cut85points
- David WattsDeep Cut85points
- David WellsDeep Cut85points
- David WillettsDeep Cut85points
- David WilliamsDeep Cut85points
- David WilsonDeep Cut85points
- David WolfsonDeep Cut85points
- David Yau YauDeep Cut85points
- David Yien BiliethDeep Cut85points
- David ZiniDeep Cut85points
- Davide AielloDeep Cut85points
- Davide AmadoDeep Cut85points
- Davide BellomoDeep Cut85points
- Davide BergaminiDeep Cut85points
- Davide FaraoneDeep Cut85points
- Davidson IshmaelDeep Cut85points
- Davis Ansah OpokuDeep Cut85points
- Davis ChirchirDeep Cut85points
- Dāvis Mārtiņš DaugavietisDeep Cut85points
- Dāvis MelnalksnisDeep Cut85points
- Davit DanielyanDeep Cut85points
- Davit MatevosyanDeep Cut85points
- Daviti MatikashviliDeep Cut85points
- Davor BožinovićDeep Cut85points
- Davor BunozaDeep Cut85points
- Davy RimaneDeep Cut85points
- Davyd ArakhamiaDeep Cut85points
- Daw al-Bayt Abdul Rahman MansourDeep Cut85points
- Dawar Khan KundiDeep Cut85points
- Dawas DawasDeep Cut85points
- Dawda JallowDeep Cut85points
- Dawid BooisDeep Cut85points
- Dawid EigubDeep Cut85points
- Dawn AndersonDeep Cut85points
- Dawn ArnoldDeep Cut85points
- Dawn BlackDeep Cut85points
- Dawn ButlerDeep Cut85points
- Dawn Hastings-WilliamsDeep Cut85points
- Dawn PrimaroloDeep Cut85points
- Dawood MarafieDeep Cut85points
- Däwren AbaevDeep Cut85points
- Dawud Mohammed NurDeep 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.