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
- Fernando Zamorano PeraltaDeep Cut85points
- Ferney Silva IdroboDeep Cut85points
- Ferran Costa MarimonDeep Cut85points
- Ferry JuliantonoDeep Cut85points
- Feruza NigmatovaDeep Cut85points
- Feryal Bani SalmanDeep Cut85points
- Feryal ClarkDeep Cut85points
- Fesolai Apulu Tusiupu TuigamalaDeep Cut85points
- Festo Faustino KumbaDeep Cut85points
- Festo LemiDeep Cut85points
- Feston KaupaDeep Cut85points
- Festus Bulugu LimbuDeep Cut85points
- Festus KeyamoDeep Cut85points
- Festus MbandekaDeep Cut85points
- Festus ThomasDeep Cut85points
- Festus UeiteleDeep Cut85points
- Feteh Saad MgeniDeep Cut85points
- Fethi Zouhair NouriDeep Cut85points
- Fetiya Ahmed AbrahimDeep Cut85points
- Feyid Sherab SherifDeep Cut85points
- Fezeka MbikoDeep Cut85points
- Fiame Naomi Mata'afaDeep Cut85points
- Fidanka KatsarevaDeep Cut85points
- Fide KürşatDeep Cut85points
- Fidel Daniel Chimal GarcíaDeep Cut85points
- Fidel EspinozaDeep Cut85points
- Fidel GrantDeep Cut85points
- Fidel Reyes LeeDeep Cut85points
- Fidel YlliDeep Cut85points
- Fidele NkezabahiziDeep Cut85points
- Fidèle SarassoroDeep Cut85points
- Fidelis Justin RasolonomenjanaharyDeep Cut85points
- Fidencio Lima PopDeep Cut85points
- Fidila AdemDeep Cut85points
- Fidson MananjaraDeep Cut85points
- Fie HækkerupDeep Cut85points
- Fikadu Bedilu BoljaDeep Cut85points
- Fikadu Gawshalo MemoDeep Cut85points
- Fikadu Mengistu AshemiDeep Cut85points
- Fikir Abay AnawtDeep Cut85points
- Fikrat MammadovDeep Cut85points
- Fikrim DamkaDeep Cut85points
- Fikru Werku BirsheDeep Cut85points
- Filiberto ZarattiDeep Cut85points
- Filimão SuáziDeep Cut85points
- Filimone JitokoDeep Cut85points
- Filimoni VosarogoDeep Cut85points
- Filip DienstbierDeep Cut85points
- Filip IvanovićDeep Cut85points
- Filip KaczyńskiDeep 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.