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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
- Hirofumi TakinamiDeep Cut85points
- Hirohisa TakagiDeep Cut85points
- Hirokazu MatsunoDeep Cut85points
- Hiroki AbeDeep Cut85points
- Hiroki HajikanoDeep Cut85points
- Hiroki SumiyoshiDeep Cut85points
- Hiroki UbaDeep Cut85points
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- Hiromi MitsubayashiDeep Cut85points
- Hiromichi KumadaDeep Cut85points
- Hiromichi SonosakiDeep Cut85points
- Hiromichi WatanabeDeep Cut85points
- Hironori ShibataDeep Cut85points
- Hiroo IshiiDeep Cut85points
- Hiroo KoteraDeep Cut85points
- Hiroshi AndōDeep Cut85points
- Hiroshi HiraguchiDeep Cut85points
- Hiroshi KajiyamaDeep Cut85points
- Hiroshi KamiyaDeep Cut85points
- Hiroshi MoriyamaDeep Cut85points
- Hiroshi NakadaDeep Cut85points
- Hiroshi NakatsukaDeep Cut85points
- Hiroshi OkaDeep Cut85points
- Hiroshi SuzukiDeep Cut85points
- Hiroshi UenoDeep Cut85points
- Hiroshi YamadaDeep Cut85points
- Hiroshi YamauchiDeep Cut85points
- Hiroshi YoshimotoDeep Cut85points
- Hiroshige SekoDeep Cut85points
- Hirotaka IshiharaDeep Cut85points
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- Hirotake YasuokaDeep Cut85points
- Hiroto KumagaiDeep Cut85points
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- Hiroyuki KadaDeep Cut85points
- Hiroyuki KonishiDeep Cut85points
- Hiroyuki NagahamaDeep Cut85points
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- Hirpe MuletaDeep Cut85points
- Hiruni WijesingheDeep Cut85points
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- Hisashi MatsumotoDeep 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.