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
- Jean Pierre Celestin HabiyaremyeDeep Cut85points
- Jean Pierre HinduraDeep Cut85points
- Jean Pierre KarabarangaDeep Cut85points
- Jean Pierre Matus AcuñaDeep Cut85points
- Jean Pierre VogelDeep Cut85points
- Jean Rosaire IbaraDeep Cut85points
- Jean SolDeep Cut85points
- Jean TalouzianDeep Cut85points
- Jean TerlierDeep Cut85points
- Jean TschoppDeep Cut85points
- Jean YipDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Baptiste BlancDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Baptiste Jeangène VilmerDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Baptiste LemoyneDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Carles GrelierDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Claude AnglarsDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Claude GakossoDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Claude Molipe MandongoDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Claude RakotonirinaDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Claude RauxDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Claude TissotDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Claude TriboletDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Denis GaronDeep Cut85points
- Jean-François CoulommeDeep Cut85points
- Jean-François GatelierDeep Cut85points
- Jean-François HussonDeep Cut85points
- Jean-François LongeotDeep Cut85points
- Jean-François PortarrieuDeep Cut85points
- Jean-François RapinDeep Cut85points
- Jean-François RoussetDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Gérard PaumierDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Guy AfrikaDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Hugues RatenonDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Jacques BouyaDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Jacques LozachDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Jacques MichauDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Jacques PanunziDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Louis GrindaDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Louis RoumégasDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Louis ThiériotDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Luc AddorDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Luc BourgeauxDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Luc BraultDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Luc CruckeDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Luc FugitDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Luc MouthouDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Luc RuelleDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Luc WarsmannDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Lucien BussaDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Lucien Savi de TovéDeep 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.