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
- Doumbia Mariam TangaraDeep Cut85points
- Doutor LuizinhoDeep Cut85points
- Doutor Rui Alberto de Figueiredo SoaresDeep Cut85points
- Douvaouissa Aissa HamadiDeep Cut85points
- Dovilė ŠakalienėDeep Cut85points
- Dowletgeldi MeredowDeep Cut85points
- Dr. TaïgaDeep Cut85points
- Dra. Alessandra HaberDeep Cut85points
- Dra. EudóciaDeep Cut85points
- Dragan ČovićDeep Cut85points
- Dragan GlamocicDeep Cut85points
- Dragan KrapovićDeep Cut85points
- Dragan ŠutanovacDeep Cut85points
- Dragana JeckovDeep Cut85points
- Dragana RadulovicDeep Cut85points
- Dragana VučevićDeep Cut85points
- Dragomir ZakovDeep Cut85points
- Dragos AnastasiuDeep Cut85points
- Dragoș ZisopolDeep Cut85points
- Dragoș-Florin ComanDeep Cut85points
- Drahomír BlažejDeep Cut85points
- Drahoslav RybaDeep Cut85points
- Dramviku Eric SabitiDeep Cut85points
- Dražen PetrićDeep Cut85points
- Dren DoliDeep Cut85points
- Drita LlollaDeep Cut85points
- Dritan AbazovićDeep Cut85points
- Duane SmithDeep Cut85points
- Duarte HetsbergerDeep Cut85points
- Duarte JrDeep Cut85points
- Duay Martínez SalazarDeep Cut85points
- Dube Julo MaagaDeep Cut85points
- Dubravka BošnjakDeep Cut85points
- Dubravka ĐedovićDeep Cut85points
- Duda RamosDeep Cut85points
- Duda SalabertDeep Cut85points
- Dudi AmsalemDeep Cut85points
- Dudley KopuDeep Cut85points
- Dudung AbdurachmanDeep Cut85points
- Dudy PurwagandhiDeep Cut85points
- Duger RegdelDeep Cut85points
- Dügeriin RegdelDeep Cut85points
- Duguma Adugna DebeleDeep Cut85points
- Duke BuchanDeep Cut85points
- Duke FrascoDeep Cut85points
- Duke Ofori-AttaDeep Cut85points
- Dulamyn Bum-OchirDeep Cut85points
- Dulce de Jesus SoaresDeep Cut85points
- Dulce María Corina Villegas GuarnerosDeep Cut85points
- Dulcineia Catarina MouraDeep 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.