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
- Juan Guzmán CruzDeep Cut85points
- Juan Ignacio Zavala GutiérrezDeep Cut85points
- Juan Irarrázaval RosselDeep Cut85points
- Juan José Aizcorbe TorraDeep Cut85points
- Juan José Matarí SáezDeep Cut85points
- Juan Jose Ndong TomoDeep Cut85points
- Juan José OlaizolaDeep Cut85points
- Juan Jose RamirezDeep Cut85points
- Juan José Sanz AparicioDeep Cut85points
- Juan Jose Torres FloresDeep Cut85points
- Juan Justo Chavez PereiraDeep Cut85points
- Juan LagosDeep Cut85points
- Juan Lobato GandariasDeep Cut85points
- Juan Loreto Gómez SotoDeep Cut85points
- Juan Luis Carrillo SoberanisDeep Cut85points
- Juan Luis CastroDeep Cut85points
- Juan Luis ManzurDeep Cut85points
- Juan Maciel MerloDeep Cut85points
- Juan Manuel Ávila GutiérrezDeep Cut85points
- Juan Manuel Fernández MartínezDeep Cut85points
- Juan Manuel Londoño JaramilloDeep Cut85points
- Juan Manuel Pino ForeroDeep Cut85points
- Juan Manuel Quesada EspinozaDeep Cut85points
- Juan Marcelo Valenzuela HenríquezDeep Cut85points
- Juan Marco Gonzaga SalazarDeep Cut85points
- Juan MarinoDeep Cut85points
- Juan Martín JorgeDeep Cut85points
- Juan Martín RodríguezDeep Cut85points
- Juan Meléndrez EspinozaDeep Cut85points
- Juan Moreno de HaroDeep Cut85points
- Juan NdongDeep Cut85points
- Juan Pablo DelgadoDeep Cut85points
- Juan Pablo Duqué GonzálezDeep Cut85points
- Juan Pablo LuqueDeep Cut85points
- Juan Pablo Molina SaldañaDeep Cut85points
- Juan Pablo MontenegroDeep Cut85points
- Juan Pablo Quispe MirandaDeep Cut85points
- Juan Pablo Rojas SuárezDeep Cut85points
- Juan Quijada HerediaDeep Cut85points
- Juan Rivas GarcíaDeep Cut85points
- Juan Rivera EstévezDeep Cut85points
- Juan RodríguezDeep Cut85points
- Juan Sandro Rodriguez SanchezDeep Cut85points
- Juan Santana CastilloDeep Cut85points
- Juan SaucedaDeep Cut85points
- Juan SchiarettiDeep Cut85points
- Juan SheputDeep Cut85points
- Juan VargasDeep Cut85points
- Juan VillanuevaDeep Cut85points
- Juan ZerónDeep 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.