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
- Farah Sh. Abdulkadir MohamedDeep Cut85points
- Farahnaz BahramiDeep Cut85points
- Faraj AqdiDeep Cut85points
- Faraj Salmin Al-BuhsaniDeep Cut85points
- Farakh KhanDeep Cut85points
- Faramarz ShahsaviriDeep Cut85points
- Fardowsa Osman DhoreDeep Cut85points
- Fares Al SoudDeep Cut85points
- Fares al-qubDeep Cut85points
- Farhad BashiriDeep Cut85points
- Farhad ShahinDeep Cut85points
- Farhad ShahrakiDeep Cut85points
- Farhad TahmasebiDeep Cut85points
- Farhan ChishtiDeep Cut85points
- Farhat EssackDeep Cut85points
- Farhod ZayniyevDeep Cut85points
- Farid AhmadovDeep Cut85points
- Farid Al BoustaniDeep Cut85points
- Farid Al KhazenDeep Cut85points
- Farid AqelDeep Cut85points
- Farid AsgarovDeep Cut85points
- Farid GayibovDeep Cut85points
- Farid MousaviDeep Cut85points
- Farida AbriDeep Cut85points
- Farida AmraniDeep Cut85points
- Farida El ChoubachyDeep Cut85points
- Faride RafulDeep Cut85points
- Faridul Kabir TalukderDeep Cut85points
- Faris Al-RawiDeep Cut85points
- Faris Delil YesufDeep Cut85points
- Fariz IsmailzadeDeep Cut85points
- Farmida BiDeep Cut85points
- Farooq Hamid NaekDeep Cut85points
- Farouk AttahiriDeep Cut85points
- Farouk Gatkuoth KamDeep Cut85points
- Farshad EbrahimpourDeep Cut85points
- Faruk AytekDeep Cut85points
- Farukh QureshiDeep Cut85points
- Farxodbek AshmatovDeep Cut85points
- Farzana SharminDeep Cut85points
- Farzaneh AnsariDeep Cut85points
- Farzaneh SadeghDeep Cut85points
- Fasiha HassanDeep Cut85points
- Fasla YoussefDeep Cut85points
- Fasmin SharifDeep Cut85points
- Fassoun CoulibalyDeep Cut85points
- Fata Ryan SchusterDeep Cut85points
- Fatafehi FakafānuaDeep Cut85points
- Fatbardha KadiuDeep Cut85points
- Fateh Mohammed SaidDeep 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.