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
- Karen GrigoryanDeep Cut85points
- Karen GroganDeep Cut85points
- Karen HambardzumyanDeep Cut85points
- Karen HoganDeep Cut85points
- Karen Juliana López SalazarDeep Cut85points
- Karen KarapetyanDeep Cut85points
- Karen MakishimaDeep Cut85points
- Karen NyamuDeep Cut85points
- Karen ReichardtDeep Cut85points
- Karen SaroukhanyanDeep Cut85points
- Karen ShakhmuradyanDeep Cut85points
- Karen SimonyanDeep Cut85points
- Karen SorensenDeep Cut85points
- Karen Tatiana Alfaro JiménezDeep Cut85points
- Karen Yaiti Calcaneo ConstantinoDeep Cut85points
- Karen-Mae HillDeep Cut85points
- Karenly Del Valle Sanchez NegrinDeep Cut85points
- Kari Baadstrand SandnesDeep Cut85points
- Kari KuusiniemiDeep Cut85points
- Kari Nessa NordtunDeep Cut85points
- Kari Sofie BjørnsenDeep Cut85points
- Kariela Elismar Aray MedinaDeep Cut85points
- Kariisa Johnbosco KoyDeep Cut85points
- Karim BadawiDeep Cut85points
- Karim BardeesyDeep Cut85points
- Karim Ben CheikhDeep Cut85points
- Karim BenbrahimDeep Cut85points
- Karim BianchiDeep Cut85points
- Karim ChaouiDeep Cut85points
- Karim MasoumiDeep Cut85points
- Karim MusaDeep Cut85points
- Karim SouaidDeep Cut85points
- Karim ValiyevDeep Cut85points
- Karim ZidaneDeep Cut85points
- Karima AdmaneDeep Cut85points
- Karima BenyaichDeep Cut85points
- Karima TafarDeep Cut85points
- Karimou SalimaneDeep Cut85points
- Karin DoppelbauerDeep Cut85points
- Karin EnströmDeep Cut85points
- Karin GajdováDeep Cut85points
- Karin GreinerDeep Cut85points
- Karin Keller-SutterDeep Cut85points
- Karin Larissa Herrera AguilarDeep Cut85points
- Karin PrienDeep Cut85points
- Karin SmythDeep Cut85points
- Karin StrausDeep Cut85points
- Karin SundinDeep Cut85points
- Karin van BijsterveldDeep Cut85points
- Karina AdsbølDeep 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.