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
- Agnete Masternes HanssenDeep Cut85points
- Agni Deo SinghDeep Cut85points
- Agnieszka Anna SoinDeep Cut85points
- Agnieszka BruggerDeep Cut85points
- Agnieszka BuczyńskaDeep Cut85points
- Agnieszka DudraDeep Cut85points
- Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-BąkDeep Cut85points
- Agnieszka Frydrychowicz-TekieliDeep Cut85points
- Agnieszka GórskaDeep Cut85points
- Agnieszka HanajczykDeep Cut85points
- Agnieszka Maria KłopotekDeep Cut85points
- Agnieszka PomaskaDeep Cut85points
- Agnieszka RucińskaDeep Cut85points
- Agnieszka ŚcigajDeep Cut85points
- Agnieszka Wojciechowska van HeukelomDeep Cut85points
- Agniola AhouanmenouDeep Cut85points
- Agok Makur KurDeep Cut85points
- Agom JarigbeDeep Cut85points
- Agostinho Miquinho Domingos CasseçaDeep Cut85points
- Agostinho Van-DúnemDeep Cut85points
- Agostino SantilloDeep Cut85points
- Agoth Ngot RiinyDeep Cut85points
- Agripina María del Pilar Flores CórdovaDeep Cut85points
- Agripina Zaituni BuyogeraDeep Cut85points
- Agron GjekmarkajDeep Cut85points
- Agu Deban GessoDeep Cut85points
- Aguila SalehDeep Cut85points
- Aguinaldo RibeiroDeep Cut85points
- Agumase Anteneh WubeDeep Cut85points
- Agung KurniadiDeep Cut85points
- Agus AdriantoDeep Cut85points
- Agus Gumiwang KartasasmitaDeep Cut85points
- Agus Harimurti YudhoyonoDeep Cut85points
- Agus SubiyantoDeep Cut85points
- Agusta James TeimaDeep Cut85points
- Agustín Almodóbar BarcelóDeep Cut85points
- Agustín Alonso GutiérrezDeep Cut85points
- Agustín Aníbal MonteverdeDeep Cut85points
- Agustín Dorantes LámbarriDeep Cut85points
- Agustín Oscar RossiDeep Cut85points
- Agustín Pedro CotoDeep Cut85points
- Agustín PellegriniDeep Cut85points
- Agustín Romero LeivaDeep Cut85points
- Agustina Lucrecia PropatoDeep Cut85points
- Aguti SarahDeep Cut85points
- Agvaanluvsangiin UndraaDeep Cut85points
- Ahad AbiyevDeep Cut85points
- Ahad AzadikhahDeep Cut85points
- Ahad BioteDeep Cut85points
- Ahad CheemaDeep 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.