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
- Irakli ChikovaniDeep Cut85points
- Irakli KadagishviliDeep Cut85points
- Irakli KarseladzeDeep Cut85points
- Irakli KheladzeDeep Cut85points
- Irakli KirtskhaliaDeep Cut85points
- Irakli KobakhidzeDeep Cut85points
- Irakli MezurnishviliDeep Cut85points
- Irakli ShatakishviliDeep Cut85points
- Irakli ZarkuaDeep Cut85points
- Irek BoguslavskyDeep Cut85points
- Irek FaizullinDeep Cut85points
- Irena Ferčíková KonečnáDeep Cut85points
- Irena HrstićDeep Cut85points
- Irena NěmcováDeep Cut85points
- Irena RadovićDeep Cut85points
- Irena ŠimunićDeep Cut85points
- Irena VujovićDeep Cut85points
- Irene AdamsDeep Cut85points
- Irene CampbellDeep Cut85points
- Irene CharalambidouDeep Cut85points
- Irene CostaDeep Cut85points
- Irene EisenhutDeep Cut85points
- Irène EsamboDeep Cut85points
- Irene GoriDeep Cut85points
- Irène KälinDeep Cut85points
- Irene KasaluDeep Cut85points
- Irene KhanDeep Cut85points
- Irene LabadlabadDeep Cut85points
- Irene Linda MugishaDeep Cut85points
- Irene ManziDeep Cut85points
- Irene Maria PlankDeep Cut85points
- Irene Marie-Cecile Mboukou-KimbatsaDeep Cut85points
- Irene MihalicDeep Cut85points
- Irene Mrembo NjokiDeep Cut85points
- Irene MuloniDeep Cut85points
- Irene Neumann-HartbergerDeep Cut85points
- Irene PartlDeep Cut85points
- Irene Saeed Abdel MoezDeep Cut85points
- Ireneusz NalazekDeep Cut85points
- Ireneusz RaśDeep Cut85points
- Ireneusz ZyskaDeep Cut85points
- Ireni AgapidakiDeep Cut85points
- Ireno Nauta Domingos NambaloDeep Cut85points
- Ireti KingibeDeep Cut85points
- Irfaan AliDeep Cut85points
- Irfan Ali LeghariDeep Cut85points
- İrfan ÇelikaslanDeep Cut85points
- Irfan Saadat KhanDeep Cut85points
- Irfan SiddiqDeep Cut85points
- Iriama MargaretDeep 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.