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
- György CzervánDeep Cut85points
- György László VelkeyDeep Cut85points
- György PolgárDeep Cut85points
- György UrkutiDeep Cut85points
- Gyula BándiDeep Cut85points
- Gyula FöldesiDeep Cut85points
- Gyula KovácsDeep Cut85points
- Gyula PethőDeep Cut85points
- Gyula Tamás SzeberényiDeep Cut85points
- Gyunay DalooluDeep Cut85points
- Gyunay HyusmenDeep Cut85points
- H AbdurrahmanDeep Cut85points
- H. D. KumaraswamyDeep Cut85points
- H. Panji WidagdoDeep Cut85points
- H.A.M. Janssen-van HelvoortDeep Cut85points
- H.W. VogelsDeep Cut85points
- Haagen PoppeDeep Cut85points
- Habeeb Adewale Olumuyiwa AbiruDeep Cut85points
- Habeeb RifanDeep Cut85points
- Habib GhasemiDeep Cut85points
- Habib HssiniDeep Cut85points
- Habib IddrisuDeep Cut85points
- Habib ObeidDeep Cut85points
- Habiba TarioultDeep Cut85points
- Habibollah Shabani MovaseghiDeep Cut85points
- Habibullah AghaDeep Cut85points
- Habibullo VohidzodaDeep Cut85points
- Habibur RashidDeep Cut85points
- HabiburokhmanDeep Cut85points
- Habis Al-FayezDeep Cut85points
- Habis Al-ShabeebDeep Cut85points
- Habtamu de HoopDeep Cut85points
- Habtamu ItefaDeep Cut85points
- Habtamu Tegegne DestayeDeep Cut85points
- Habtemariam Mekonnen AliDeep Cut85points
- Habyara FortunateDeep Cut85points
- Hachim-Amine ChafikDeep Cut85points
- Hacı SalayevDeep Cut85points
- Haddy Jatou SeyDeep Cut85points
- Hadeer Raef RafikDeep Cut85points
- Hadi Aboul HosnDeep Cut85points
- Hadi FarajvandDeep Cut85points
- Hadi GhavamiDeep Cut85points
- Hadi Hashemi NiaDeep Cut85points
- Hadi MohammadpourDeep Cut85points
- Hadi Tahan NazifDeep Cut85points
- Hadia HosnyDeep Cut85points
- Haditha Al-KhreishaDeep Cut85points
- Hadji MpondaDeep Cut85points
- Hadjira AbbasDeep 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.