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
- Hester SomsenDeep Cut85points
- Heval BozdağDeep Cut85points
- Heydar AsadovDeep Cut85points
- Heyddy CalderónDeep Cut85points
- Hezekiah Ndahani ChibulunjeDeep Cut85points
- Hiam Al-YassiriDeep Cut85points
- Hiam KalimatDeep Cut85points
- Hibi EdenDeep Cut85points
- Hibo Moumin AssowehDeep Cut85points
- Hicham Ait MennaDeep Cut85points
- Hicham HarramiDeep Cut85points
- Hicham SaananeDeep Cut85points
- Hicham SabiryDeep Cut85points
- Hicran HüseynovaDeep Cut85points
- Hidayatullah KhanDeep Cut85points
- Hidde HeutinkDeep Cut85points
- Hideaki MizukoshiDeep Cut85points
- Hideharu HasegawaDeep Cut85points
- Hidehiro MitaniDeep Cut85points
- Hidekazu HaradaDeep Cut85points
- Hideki HigashinoDeep Cut85points
- Hideki IshizukaDeep Cut85points
- Hideki ItōDeep Cut85points
- Hideki MatsushitaDeep Cut85points
- Hideki MiyauchiDeep Cut85points
- Hideki MuraiDeep Cut85points
- Hideki NiwaDeep Cut85points
- Hideki TsujiDeep Cut85points
- Hideko NishiokaDeep Cut85points
- Hidelberto Marquez MarcaDeep Cut85points
- Hidemichi SatoDeep Cut85points
- Hidenori NishitaDeep Cut85points
- Hideo ŌnishiDeep Cut85points
- Hideo SuzukiDeep Cut85points
- Hideo TsunodaDeep Cut85points
- Hidetaka InoueDeep Cut85points
- Hidetake UsukiDeep Cut85points
- Hideto KawasakiDeep Cut85points
- Hidetoshi OgawaDeep Cut85points
- Hideya SugioDeep Cut85points
- Hideyuki NakanoDeep Cut85points
- Hideyuki ShiomiDeep Cut85points
- Hideyuki TanakaDeep Cut85points
- Hienadź DavydźkaDeep Cut85points
- Hienadź TrubilaDeep Cut85points
- Highness Samson KiwiaDeep Cut85points
- Higinio Martínez MirandaDeep Cut85points
- Hikariko OnoDeep Cut85points
- Hikaru FujitaDeep Cut85points
- Hikmet HajiyevDeep 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.