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
- Ignacio Mier VelazcoDeep Cut85points
- Ignacio Urcullú Clèment-LundDeep Cut85points
- Ignacio UrrutiaDeep Cut85points
- Ignacy NiemczyckiDeep Cut85points
- Ignas VėgėlėDeep Cut85points
- Ignatius Michael GroenewaldDeep Cut85points
- Ignazio CassisDeep Cut85points
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- Igor AnanskikhDeep Cut85points
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- Igor CesarDeep Cut85points
- Igor ChiriacDeep Cut85points
- Igor DodonDeep Cut85points
- Igor FilkovDeep Cut85points
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- Igor HendrychDeep Cut85points
- Igor IezziDeep Cut85points
- Igor IgoshinDeep Cut85points
- Igor JanusevDeep Cut85points
- Igor KrasnovDeep Cut85points
- Igor MatovičDeep Cut85points
- Igor PapičDeep Cut85points
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- Igor RudenyaDeep Cut85points
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- Igor ShubinDeep Cut85points
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- Igor ZdravkovskiDeep Cut85points
- Igors JudinsDeep Cut85points
- Igors RajevsDeep Cut85points
- Igotz López TorreDeep Cut85points
- Ihab AwadDeep Cut85points
- Ihab HmadeDeep Cut85points
- Ihab MattarDeep Cut85points
- Ihar BrylievichDeep Cut85points
- Ihar KarpienkaDeep Cut85points
- Ihar LiubavitskiDeep Cut85points
- Ihar MarzaliukDeep Cut85points
- Ihar SerheenkaDeep Cut85points
- Ihar ShaludzinDeep Cut85points
- Ihn Yo-hanDeep Cut85points
- Ihor FrisDeep Cut85points
- Ihor HerasymenkoDeep Cut85points
- Ihor HuzDeep Cut85points
- Ihor KisilovDeep Cut85points
- Ihor KlymenkoDeep Cut85points
- Ihor KopytinDeep Cut85points
- Ihor KryvosheievDeep 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.