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
- Ged NashDeep Cut85points
- Gediminas ŠimkusDeep Cut85points
- Gediminas VarvuolisDeep Cut85points
- Gedion Mutemi MulyungiDeep Cut85points
- Gedion TimothewosDeep Cut85points
- Gedu AndargachewDeep Cut85points
- Geela AliDeep Cut85points
- Geeta ChandraprabhaDeep Cut85points
- Geeta NargundDeep Cut85points
- Geeta TuckerDeep Cut85points
- Geetha HerathDeep Cut85points
- Gegham ManukyanDeep Cut85points
- Gegham NazaryanDeep Cut85points
- Geir Inge LienDeep Cut85points
- Geir JørgensenDeep Cut85points
- Geir PollestadDeep Cut85points
- Gela SamkharauliDeep Cut85points
- Gelane Bikila WoyechaDeep Cut85points
- Gelase NdabirabeDeep Cut85points
- Gem TsheringDeep Cut85points
- Gema Karolina Dueñas PalmaDeep Cut85points
- Gemma CesariniDeep Cut85points
- Gemma StevensonDeep Cut85points
- Gen FukudaDeep Cut85points
- Gen KitchenDeep Cut85points
- Gen NakataniDeep Cut85points
- Genene Gedebu FelehaDeep Cut85points
- General GirãoDeep Cut85points
- General PazuelloDeep Cut85points
- Genésio da MataDeep Cut85points
- Génesis Josef Garvett RomeroDeep Cut85points
- Genesis Paola Canelon MontilDeep Cut85points
- Genet Abraham YayuDeep Cut85points
- Genet Bete GeraworkDeep Cut85points
- Genet Waqgari FitieDeep Cut85points
- Genet ZewdeDeep Cut85points
- Geneviève DarrieussecqDeep Cut85points
- Genia Esther Sosa SegundoDeep Cut85points
- Geniben Nagaji ThakorDeep Cut85points
- Genista McIntoshDeep Cut85points
- Genkerve Luis Tovar PalaciosDeep Cut85points
- Gennadiy PaninDeep Cut85points
- Gennadiy SklyarDeep Cut85points
- Gennady KrasnikovDeep Cut85points
- Gennady SemiginDeep Cut85points
- Gennady ZyuganovDeep Cut85points
- Genny Beatriz Chávez GuevaraDeep Cut85points
- Geno PetriashviliDeep Cut85points
- Genoveva Huerta VillegasDeep Cut85points
- Gent SejkoDeep 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.