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
- Jesús Emiliano Álvarez LópezDeep Cut85points
- Jesús Enrique Pérez VeraDeep Cut85points
- Jesús Fernando García HernándezDeep Cut85points
- Jesús Fernando RejalDeep Cut85points
- Jesús Germán Faría TortosaDeep Cut85points
- Jesús Irugami Perea CruzDeep Cut85points
- Jesús Jiménez J.Deep Cut85points
- Jesús Martín Cuanalo AraujoDeep Cut85points
- Jesús Omero Cuasapud ChaspuengalDeep Cut85points
- Jesus Otamendiz CamposDeep Cut85points
- Jesús Pérez AlccahuamánDeep Cut85points
- Jesús Rafael Suárez ChourioDeep Cut85points
- Jesús Roberto Corral OrdóñezDeep Cut85points
- Jesús Salim Lorduy MartínezDeep Cut85points
- Jesús Valdés PeñaDeep Cut85points
- Jetsada DontreesanoaDeep Cut85points
- Jevgēnija ŠafranekaDeep Cut85points
- Jevrosima PejovićDeep Cut85points
- Jevto ErakovićDeep Cut85points
- Jeyhun BayramovDeep Cut85points
- Jezmi Lizeth Barraza ArrautDeep Cut85points
- Jhabilal DumreDeep Cut85points
- Jhajaira Estefania Urresta GuzmanDeep Cut85points
- Jhakku Prasad SubediDeep Cut85points
- Jhaneline Kerdy CortezDeep Cut85points
- Jhobana Ricaldi RodriguezDeep Cut85points
- Jhon Amhed AbamilkiDeep Cut85points
- Jhon Fredi Valencia CaicedoDeep Cut85points
- Jhon Jairo Berrío LópezDeep Cut85points
- Jhonathan VegaDeep Cut85points
- Jhonn Alexander Molina BetancurDeep Cut85points
- Jhonn ValquiDeep Cut85points
- Jhonny Haikella HakayeDeep Cut85points
- Jhony Ayala SolizDeep Cut85points
- Jhosy ToscanoDeep Cut85points
- Jiang BinDeep Cut85points
- Jiang WeiDeep Cut85points
- Jiang XiaoyanDeep Cut85points
- Jibril Abdirashid NurDeep Cut85points
- Jibril IbrahimDeep Cut85points
- Jibrin IsahDeep Cut85points
- Jide IpinsagbaDeep Cut85points
- Jigjidiin BatjargalDeep Cut85points
- Jigjidsürengiin ChinbürenDeep Cut85points
- Jigme Khesar Namgyel WangchuckDeep Cut85points
- Jiha TankouaDeep Cut85points
- Jihad AbawiDeep Cut85points
- Jihad El SamadDeep Cut85points
- Jihad MadanatDeep Cut85points
- Jihad Nasser AbduDeep 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.