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
- Ilir DugolliDeep Cut85points
- Ilir NdraxhiDeep Cut85points
- Ilir XhakolliDeep Cut85points
- Ilire DautiDeep Cut85points
- Ilisoni VuidreketiDeep Cut85points
- Iļja IvanovsDeep Cut85points
- Illubabor Buno TessoDeep Cut85points
- Ilmārs LukstsDeep Cut85points
- Ilona GelažnikienėDeep Cut85points
- Ilora FinlayDeep Cut85points
- Ilse BezaanDeep Cut85points
- Ilukol EmmanuelDeep Cut85points
- Ilva Myriam HoyosDeep Cut85points
- Ilyas HassanDeep Cut85points
- Ilyas Moussa DawalehDeep Cut85points
- Ilza Amado VazDeep Cut85points
- Ilze IndriksoneDeep Cut85points
- Ilze StobovaDeep Cut85points
- Ilze VerginaDeep Cut85points
- Im Kyong-jaeDeep Cut85points
- Imaan Sulaiman-IbrahimDeep Cut85points
- Imad al-AshrafaniDeep Cut85points
- Imad Al-AteeqiDeep Cut85points
- Imad BarqDeep Cut85points
- Imad HamdanDeep Cut85points
- Imad HijazinDeep Cut85points
- Imad HoutDeep Cut85points
- Imam Edy MulyonoDeep Cut85points
- İmamverdi İsmayılovDeep Cut85points
- Iman Al-AbbasiDeep Cut85points
- Iman El-AgouzDeep Cut85points
- Iman Khatib-YasinDeep Cut85points
- Imane BenrabiaDeep Cut85points
- Imane ElyakoubiDeep Cut85points
- Imane FerganiDeep Cut85points
- Imarú Alejandra Bolívar MoralesDeep Cut85points
- Imee MarcosDeep Cut85points
- Imelda GoldsboroDeep Cut85points
- Imelda Sanmiguel SánchezDeep Cut85points
- Imelde SabushimikeDeep Cut85points
- Imirane Abdoulaye ToureDeep Cut85points
- Imma Tor FausDeep Cut85points
- Immacolata ZurzoloDeep Cut85points
- Immaculate WambuaDeep Cut85points
- Imms NashingeDeep Cut85points
- Imogen WalkerDeep Cut85points
- Imraan MoosaDeep Cut85points
- Imran Al-QeebDeep Cut85points
- Imran AliDeep Cut85points
- Imran HussainDeep 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.