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
- Henrik VingeDeep Cut85points
- Henrik VuornosDeep Cut85points
- Henrik WickströmDeep Cut85points
- Henrike BrandstötterDeep Cut85points
- Henrique Alberto BanzeDeep Cut85points
- Henrique Capriles RadonskiDeep Cut85points
- Henriques BongeceDeep Cut85points
- Henro KrügerDeep Cut85points
- Henrry Antonio Balderrama CandiaDeep Cut85points
- Henry AlbañilDeep Cut85points
- Henry AmuliDeep Cut85points
- Henry Armando ParraDeep Cut85points
- Henry BanyenzakiDeep Cut85points
- Henry BellinghamDeep Cut85points
- Henry Charles UsherDeep Cut85points
- Henry Daffa ShekifuDeep Cut85points
- Henry Dama PhoyaDeep Cut85points
- Henry David SaenzDeep Cut85points
- Henry Delgado SalvadorDeep Cut85points
- Henry F. SaamoiDeep Cut85points
- Henry KajuraDeep Cut85points
- Henry KpakaDeep Cut85points
- Henry KwekDeep Cut85points
- Henry MadzoreraDeep Cut85points
- Henry Omai AkolawinDeep Cut85points
- Henry Oryem OkelloDeep Cut85points
- Henry PikeDeep Cut85points
- Henry Saúl Bósquez VillenaDeep Cut85points
- Henry Stephen TangaDeep Cut85points
- Henry Sum AgongDeep Cut85points
- Henry TufnellDeep Cut85points
- Henry WoosterDeep Cut85points
- Henryk KiepuraDeep Cut85points
- Henryk KowalczykDeep Cut85points
- Henryk Mieczyslaw JagodzinskiDeep Cut85points
- Henryk SmolarzDeep Cut85points
- Henryk SzopińskiDeep Cut85points
- Henryka Krzywonos-StrycharskaDeep Cut85points
- Henryka Mościcka-DendysDeep Cut85points
- Heo Jong-sikDeep Cut85points
- Heo LerosDeep Cut85points
- Heorhii MazurashuDeep Cut85points
- Heráclito Landínez SuárezDeep Cut85points
- Herb ConawayDeep Cut85points
- Herbert Djono AhabaDeep Cut85points
- Herbert James MntangiDeep Cut85points
- Herbert KabafunzakiDeep Cut85points
- Herbert KicklDeep Cut85points
- Herbert KoberDeep Cut85points
- Herbert RodasDeep 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.