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
- Frank GilettiDeep Cut85points
- Frank KrklecDeep Cut85points
- Frank LucasDeep Cut85points
- Frank McNallyDeep Cut85points
- Frank MenjívarDeep Cut85points
- Frank MrvanDeep Cut85points
- Frank PalloneDeep Cut85points
- Frank Raúl Arechavaleta PérezDeep Cut85points
- Frank RückertDeep Cut85points
- Frank SchwabeDeep Cut85points
- Frank SveDeep Cut85points
- Frank TayaliDeep Cut85points
- Frank TroostersDeep Cut85points
- Frank VandenbrouckeDeep Cut85points
- Frank YeboahDeep Cut85points
- Frank-Anthony TaboneDeep Cut85points
- Frank-Walter SteinmeierDeep Cut85points
- Franklin CarrilloDeep Cut85points
- Franklin Del Cristo Lozano De La OssaDeep Cut85points
- Franklin Garcia FerminDeep Cut85points
- Franklin Martín Romero MorilloDeep Cut85points
- Franklin Omar Samaniego MaiguaDeep Cut85points
- Frankly Ezra WilliamDeep Cut85points
- Franklyn WasiDeep Cut85points
- Franklyn WitterDeep Cut85points
- Franko VidovićDeep Cut85points
- Franky DemonDeep Cut85points
- Frans KapofiDeep Cut85points
- František BurešDeep Cut85points
- František PetrtýlDeep Cut85points
- František TalířDeep Cut85points
- Frantz GumbsDeep Cut85points
- Franyela Bermúdez SernaDeep Cut85points
- Franz EbnerDeep Cut85points
- Franz FayotDeep Cut85points
- Franz GrüterDeep Cut85points
- Franz HörlDeep Cut85points
- Franz JantscherDeep Cut85points
- Franziska BrantnerDeep Cut85points
- Franziska GiffeyDeep Cut85points
- Franziska HoopDeep Cut85points
- Franziska HoppermannDeep Cut85points
- Franziska KerstenDeep Cut85points
- Franziska RothDeep Cut85points
- Franziska RyserDeep Cut85points
- Fraol Udessa GelchuDeep Cut85points
- Fraser TolmieDeep Cut85points
- Frauke HeiligenstadtDeep Cut85points
- Frazette GibsonDeep Cut85points
- Fred AgbediDeep 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.