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
- Eyerusalem Lewi EsseyDeep Cut85points
- Eyjolfur ArmannssonDeep Cut85points
- Eyob Tekalign TolinaDeep Cut85points
- Eyoum Minono épouse Epoube LydienneDeep Cut85points
- Eyvin SivertsenDeep Cut85points
- Ezama Siraji BrahanDeep Cut85points
- Eze Nwachukwu EzeDeep Cut85points
- Ezechiel NibigiraDeep Cut85points
- Ezekia Dibogo WenjeDeep Cut85points
- Ezenwa OnyewuchiDeep Cut85points
- Ezenwo Nyesom WikeDeep Cut85points
- Ezequiel AtaucheDeep Cut85points
- Ezio Angelini Luengo LuengoDeep Cut85points
- Ezozkhon KarimovaDeep Cut85points
- Ezzatullah HabibzadehDeep Cut85points
- Ezzeddine Ben CheikhDeep Cut85points
- Ezzeldin El SheikhDeep Cut85points
- F. van KnapenDeep Cut85points
- F.W.J. HolterhuesDeep Cut85points
- Fa'alogo Kapeliele II Fa'alogoDeep Cut85points
- Fabakary JattaDeep Cut85points
- Faber ChidarikireDeep Cut85points
- Fabergé Gabriel MamitianaDeep Cut85points
- Fabián Chinea CorreaDeep Cut85points
- Fabian FahlDeep Cut85points
- Fabian FigueiredoDeep Cut85points
- Fabian GramlingDeep Cut85points
- Fabian HamiltonDeep Cut85points
- Fabian JacobiDeep Cut85points
- Fabian Kyule MuleDeep Cut85points
- Fabian ManningDeep Cut85points
- Fabian MolinaDeep Cut85points
- Fabián Ossandón BriceñoDeep Cut85points
- Fabian-Cristian RaduDeep Cut85points
- Fabiana Souto de AllianaDeep Cut85points
- Fabiano ContaratoDeep Cut85points
- Fabien BraviDeep Cut85points
- Fabien FivazDeep Cut85points
- Fabien GayDeep Cut85points
- Fabien GenetDeep Cut85points
- Fabien MandonDeep Cut85points
- Fabienne StämpfliDeep Cut85points
- Fabio ArjonaDeep Cut85points
- Fabio GarciaDeep Cut85points
- Fábio MacedoDeep Cut85points
- Fabio PanettaDeep Cut85points
- Fabio PietrellaDeep Cut85points
- Fabio PortaDeep Cut85points
- Fabio RampelliDeep Cut85points
- Fabio Raúl Amín SalemeDeep 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.