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
- Eleazar Guerrero PérezDeep Cut85points
- Elem LeoDeep Cut85points
- Elena AkritaDeep Cut85points
- Elena BondarenkoDeep Cut85points
- Elena BonettiDeep Cut85points
- Elena CattaneoDeep Cut85points
- Elena DoboșDeep Cut85points
- Elena EfremDeep Cut85points
- Elena GrițcoDeep Cut85points
- Elena Julia Real CastroDeep Cut85points
- Elena LeonardiDeep Cut85points
- Elena MaccantiDeep Cut85points
- Elena MassimiDeep Cut85points
- Elena MottaDeep Cut85points
- Elena MurelliDeep Cut85points
- Elena NonevaDeep Cut85points
- Elena RaptiDeep Cut85points
- Elena Segura TrejoDeep Cut85points
- Elena ShekerletovaDeep Cut85points
- Elena Simina TanasescuDeep Cut85points
- Elena SironiDeep Cut85points
- Elena TestorDeep Cut85points
- Elena TsunaevaDeep Cut85points
- Elena Zavadlav UšajDeep Cut85points
- Eleni KarageorgopoulouDeep Cut85points
- Eleni VatsinaDeep Cut85points
- Eleonora EviDeep Cut85points
- Éléonore CaroitDeep Cut85points
- Eleonore SimonetDeep Cut85points
- Eléonore YayiDeep Cut85points
- Elfed WilliamsDeep Cut85points
- Elham AzadDeep Cut85points
- Eli BorgesDeep Cut85points
- Eli CohenDeep Cut85points
- Eli CraneDeep Cut85points
- Eli DallalDeep Cut85points
- Eli Mwanang'onzeDeep Cut85points
- Eli RemolonaDeep Cut85points
- Eli ZakourDeep Cut85points
- Élia António de Araújo dos Reis AmaralDeep Cut85points
- Elia Emilio Kheir el SeedDeep Cut85points
- Elia Esther del Carmen MorenoDeep Cut85points
- Elia Marina FernándezDeep Cut85points
- Elia Ullan Jongo WakoDeep Cut85points
- Elián González BrotonsDeep Cut85points
- Eliana BrunoDeep Cut85points
- Eliana Condori TolaDeep Cut85points
- Eliana Katherine Correa GonzálezDeep Cut85points
- Eliana LongiDeep Cut85points
- Eliana Rina Acosta QuispeDeep 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.