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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
- Denise LoopDeep Cut85points
- Denise MitchellDeep Cut85points
- Denise PessôaDeep Cut85points
- Denise PhuaDeep Cut85points
- Denise Saint-PéDeep Cut85points
- Denisse Guzmán GonzálezDeep Cut85points
- Denisse Janine Balladares VillamorDeep Cut85points
- Denisse Ricardo EstradaDeep Cut85points
- Denitsa SachevaDeep Cut85points
- Deniz YavuzyılmazDeep Cut85points
- Deniz YücelDeep Cut85points
- Dennis AlvdénDeep Cut85points
- Dennis Amadi IdahosaDeep Cut85points
- Dennis CornwallDeep Cut85points
- Dennis DioukarevDeep Cut85points
- Dennis FlydtkjærDeep Cut85points
- Dennis Galabuzi SsoziDeep Cut85points
- Dennis GordonDeep Cut85points
- Dennis Nnamdi AgboDeep Cut85points
- Dennis Richard RyderDeep Cut85points
- Dennis RoganDeep Cut85points
- Dennis RohdeDeep Cut85points
- Dennis SalinasDeep Cut85points
- Dennis Tan Lip FongDeep Cut85points
- Denny AbdiDeep Cut85points
- Denny CagurDeep Cut85points
- Denton RarawaDeep Cut85points
- Denyo DenevDeep Cut85points
- Denys HermanDeep Cut85points
- Denys HutenkoDeep Cut85points
- Denys MaslovDeep Cut85points
- Denys ShmyhalDeep Cut85points
- Denys UlyutinDeep Cut85points
- Denzil DouglasDeep Cut85points
- Deo DebattistaDeep Cut85points
- Deodat IndarDeep Cut85points
- Deogratias Aloyce NtukamazinaDeep Cut85points
- Deogratius John NdejembiDeep Cut85points
- Deolinda Tchocondoca ValiangulaDeep Cut85points
- Deon La CruzDeep Cut85points
- Dephine GutsaDeep Cut85points
- Dereje Debela SenbetoDeep Cut85points
- Dereje Teklemariam GebremeskelDeep Cut85points
- Derek O'BrienDeep Cut85points
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- Derek TranDeep Cut85points
- Derek TwiggDeep Cut85points
- Derek WalkerDeep Cut85points
- Derek WasiDeep Cut85points
- Dereleen JamesDeep 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.