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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-Marc BoyerDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Marc DeliaDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Marc Thystère-TchicayaDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Marc Vayssouze-FaureDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Marie DedeckerDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Marie FiévetDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Marie FormadiDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Marie Koffi TessiDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Marie MizzonDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Michel AbimbolaDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Michel ArnaudDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Michel BrardDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Michel JacquesDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Michel NintcheuDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Noël BarrotDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Paul LecoqDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Paul MatteiDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Paul SchaafDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Paul SeytreDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Philippe NilorDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Philippe TanguyDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Pierre BatailleDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Pierre BembaDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Pierre CorbisezDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Pierre FarandouDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Pierre LihauDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Pierre Tshimanga BuanaDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Pierre VigierDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Raymond HugonetDeep Cut85points
- Jean-René CazeneuveDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Victor CastorDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Yves BonnefoyDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Yves BonyDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Yves DuclosDeep Cut85points
- Jean-Yves RouxDeep Cut85points
- Jeanine PirroDeep Cut85points
- Jeanne AdriaanseDeep Cut85points
- Jeanne d'Arc UwimanimpayeDeep Cut85points
- Jeanne DillschneiderDeep Cut85points
- Jeanne Razafiangy Dina FotomanantenaDeep Cut85points
- Jeannie DrakeDeep Cut85points
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- Jeannot FernandDeep Cut85points
- Jearlean JohnDeep Cut85points
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- Jeem S. LippweDeep Cut85points
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- Jeeradech SrivirachDeep Cut85points
- Jeevan ThondamanDeep Cut85points
- Jeevun SandherDeep 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.