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
- Esduin JavierDeep Cut85points
- Eselealofa ApineluDeep Cut85points
- Esen AydogdyyewDeep Cut85points
- Esfandiar AbdulahiDeep Cut85points
- Eshe Bari WanjiDeep Cut85points
- Eshetu G/Mariam GolDeep Cut85points
- Eshetu Kebede GichoroDeep Cut85points
- Eshetu Temesgen GelanDeep Cut85points
- Eshraq Al-MaqtariDeep Cut85points
- Esin Martins EtimDeep Cut85points
- Eskandar MomeniDeep Cut85points
- Eskinder Aliye AbdulaDeep Cut85points
- Esmaeil Saqqab EsfahaniDeep Cut85points
- Esmael AlisiroDeep Cut85points
- Esmail BaghaeiDeep Cut85points
- Esmail GhaaniDeep Cut85points
- Esme Jynet ChomboDeep Cut85points
- Esmeralda Laredo GonzálezDeep Cut85points
- Esmond MosesDeep Cut85points
- Esneyder Gómez SalamancaDeep Cut85points
- Esosa IyaweDeep Cut85points
- Espen Barth EideDeep Cut85points
- Espen BerghDeep Cut85points
- Esperança da CostaDeep Cut85points
- Esperança Luzia Jackson Pembele da ConceiçãoDeep Cut85points
- Esperance LuvindaoDeep Cut85points
- Esperanza del Cisne RogelDeep Cut85points
- Esperanza MartínezDeep Cut85points
- Esperidião AminDeep Cut85points
- Esra LimbacherDeep Cut85points
- Esrat Sultana Elen BhuttoDeep Cut85points
- Esrom ImmanuelDeep Cut85points
- Essa Al-KandariDeep Cut85points
- Essa Boru TolaDeep Cut85points
- Essaid AmeskaneDeep Cut85points
- Essam El-Din FaridDeep Cut85points
- Essam KhalilDeep Cut85points
- Essama Nkoudou ChristopheDeep Cut85points
- Esset Mark UdoDeep Cut85points
- Essomba Bengono Engelbert AlainDeep Cut85points
- Essono Francis Lin MathieuDeep Cut85points
- Essowe Georges BarcolaDeep Cut85points
- Esteban LazoDeep Cut85points
- Esteban MoctezumaDeep Cut85points
- Esteban PaulónDeep Cut85points
- Esteban Quintero CardonaDeep Cut85points
- Esteban Samaniego AlvarezDeep Cut85points
- Esteban Torres CoboDeep Cut85points
- Esteban VelásquezDeep Cut85points
- Estefanel Gutiérrez PérezDeep 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.