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
- Hayyan Abdul GhaniDeep Cut85points
- Hazar Abd Al-RASUL al-Ajab (Acting)Deep Cut85points
- Hazel MbeleDeep Cut85points
- Hazem EmamDeep Cut85points
- Hazem OmarDeep Cut85points
- Hazlina Abdul HalimDeep Cut85points
- Haznah Md HashimDeep Cut85points
- He LifengDeep Cut85points
- He RongDeep Cut85points
- He Ting RuDeep Cut85points
- Heath MacDonaldDeep Cut85points
- Heatha Miller-BennettDeep Cut85points
- Heather AndersonDeep Cut85points
- Heather HallettDeep Cut85points
- Heather McPhersonDeep Cut85points
- Heba GhalyDeep Cut85points
- Heba LatifDeep Cut85points
- Heba Nabil FeseekhDeep Cut85points
- Heber LópezDeep Cut85points
- Héctor Aldana ReyesDeep Cut85points
- Hector Alexis Cardon CamposDeep Cut85points
- Héctor Alfonso de la Garza VillarrealDeep Cut85points
- Hector AppuhamyDeep Cut85points
- Hector Armando Cabada AlvidrezDeep Cut85points
- Héctor Barría AnguloDeep Cut85points
- Héctor Cana RiveraDeep Cut85points
- Héctor Carvajal LondoñoDeep Cut85points
- Héctor David Chaparro ChaparroDeep Cut85points
- Héctor Eduardo Rodríguez ChávezDeep Cut85points
- Héctor Elpidio AcostaDeep Cut85points
- Héctor FigueredoDeep Cut85points
- Héctor Gómez HernándezDeep Cut85points
- Héctor GuillénDeep Cut85points
- Héctor Guillermo Valladarez GonzálezDeep Cut85points
- Hector Gustavo VillatoroDeep Cut85points
- Hector Huanca GutierrezDeep Cut85points
- Héctor Luis Plata MoralesDeep Cut85points
- Héctor Olimpo Espinosa OliverDeep Cut85points
- Hector OrdoñezDeep Cut85points
- Héctor Orlando ZambranoDeep Cut85points
- Héctor Pedroza JiménezDeep Cut85points
- Hector RodriguezDeep Cut85points
- Héctor SalesDeep Cut85points
- Héctor Saúl Téllez HernándezDeep Cut85points
- Hector SilvaDeep Cut85points
- Héctor Ulloa AguileraDeep Cut85points
- Hector Valdez AlbizuDeep Cut85points
- Hector VasconcelosDeep Cut85points
- Héctor VenturaDeep Cut85points
- Heder Rafael Martinez VilchezDeep 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.