Recorded answers
35,852 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 35,852
- Abdel Hafiz NofalDeep Cut85points
- Abdel Khaleq AwadDeep Cut85points
- Abdel Latif MadaniDeep Cut85points
- Abdel Mageed SaqrDeep Cut85points
- Abdel Nasser Al-WaliDeep Cut85points
- Abdel Razek NatshehDeep Cut85points
- Abdel Salam HamidDeep Cut85points
- Abdel-Hakim Esmat El-SadatDeep Cut85points
- Abdel-Karim DeghmiDeep Cut85points
- Abdel-Sanad YamamaDeep Cut85points
- Abdelaziz AbbaDeep Cut85points
- Abdelaziz El OuadguiDeep Cut85points
- Abdelaziz KonsowaDeep Cut85points
- Abdelaziz KouskousDeep Cut85points
- Abdelaziz LachehabDeep Cut85points
- Abdelaziz LayadDeep Cut85points
- Abdelaziz SamadDeep Cut85points
- Abdelfattah Ahl El MakkiDeep Cut85points
- Abdelfattah El AouniDeep Cut85points
- Abdelghani JamilDeep Cut85points
- Abdelghani JanaahDeep Cut85points
- Abdelghani MakhdadDeep Cut85points
- Abdelhadi EchcharikaDeep Cut85points
- Abdelhak AmgharDeep Cut85points
- Abdelhak ChafikDeep Cut85points
- Abdelhak EnnajhiDeep Cut85points
- Abdelhak MohaddibDeep Cut85points
- Abdelhak SaihiDeep Cut85points
- Abdelhakim Abdesalam Al LalDeep Cut85points
- Abdelhakim El AhmadiDeep Cut85points
- Abdelhakim SoujdaDeep Cut85points
- Abdelhalim AbdelouahabDeep Cut85points
- Abdelhamid AbdelhakDeep Cut85points
- Abdelhaq FaikDeep Cut85points
- Abdelhaq SariDeep Cut85points
- Abdelilah BenkiraneDeep Cut85points
- Abdeljabbar ErrachidiDeep Cut85points
- Abdeljalil MeskineDeep Cut85points
- Abdelkader BoudraaDeep Cut85points
- Abdelkader DjellaouiDeep Cut85points
- Abdelkader KandilDeep Cut85points
- Abdelkader KhelifaDeep Cut85points
- Abdelkader LabriguiDeep Cut85points
- Abdelkader LahmarDeep Cut85points
- Abdelkader Mohammed ZeinDeep Cut85points
- Abdelkarim KabbaraDeep Cut85points
- Abdelkhalid El BasriDeep Cut85points
- Abdelkrim Ahmed Yahya Al-saniniDeep Cut85points
- Abdelkrim BouzerdDeep Cut85points
- Abdelkrim ChoukriDeep 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.