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
- Deepthi WasalageDeep Cut85points
- Deetlefs du ToitDeep Cut85points
- Defensor Stélio DenerDeep Cut85points
- Degefe BulaDeep Cut85points
- Dehab DebesayDeep Cut85points
- Deicy Alejandra Omaña OrtízDeep Cut85points
- Deirdre CostiganDeep Cut85points
- Deirdre HargeyDeep Cut85points
- Deisy Johana Osorio MárquezDeep Cut85points
- Deivy Pérez MartínDeep Cut85points
- Dejan ĐurovićDeep Cut85points
- Dejan SüčDeep Cut85points
- Dejan Vuk StankovicDeep Cut85points
- Dejan ZakrajšekDeep Cut85points
- Dejitnu Alene ZewdeDeep Cut85points
- Del Pilar Vázquez CabreraDeep Cut85points
- Del Tut Weang KhorDeep Cut85points
- Delano SeiverightDeep Cut85points
- Delcy Esperanza Isaza BuenaventuraDeep Cut85points
- Dele AlakeDeep Cut85points
- Delegada Adriana AccorsiDeep Cut85points
- Delegada IoneDeep Cut85points
- Delegada KatarinaDeep Cut85points
- Delegado Bruno LimaDeep Cut85points
- Delegado CaveiraDeep Cut85points
- Delegado da CunhaDeep Cut85points
- Delegado Éder MauroDeep Cut85points
- Delegado Fabio CostaDeep Cut85points
- Delegado Marcelo FreitasDeep Cut85points
- Delegado Matheus LaiolaDeep Cut85points
- Delegado PalumboDeep Cut85points
- Delegado Paulo BilynskyjDeep Cut85points
- Delhi Miroslava Shember DomínguezDeep Cut85points
- Delia RamirezDeep Cut85points
- Deliamaria Gonzalez FlandezDeep Cut85points
- Delian DobrevDeep Cut85points
- Delisile NtshabaDeep Cut85points
- Delkar Kalaben MohanbhaiDeep Cut85points
- Delma ThomasDeep Cut85points
- Delmaine ChristiansDeep Cut85points
- Delphine BathoDeep Cut85points
- Delphine BorioneDeep Cut85points
- Delphine Edith Emmanuel AdoukiDeep Cut85points
- Delphine Klopfenstein BrogginiDeep Cut85points
- Delphine LingemannDeep Cut85points
- Delroy ChuckDeep Cut85points
- Delroy WilliamsDeep Cut85points
- Delsa Esther Puebla ViltreDeep Cut85points
- Delvin Oneil ThomaDeep Cut85points
- Delyan PeevskiDeep 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.