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
- Kiruluuta Yusuf Junior NkerettanyiDeep Cut85points
- Kirumira HassanDeep Cut85points
- Kiryowa KiwanukaDeep Cut85points
- Kisa Stephen BakubalwayoDeep Cut85points
- Kisaburo TokaiDeep Cut85points
- Kisekka SalimDeep Cut85points
- Kishore ShallowDeep Cut85points
- Kishori LalDeep Cut85points
- Kishwer FalknerDeep Cut85points
- Kisyeri Werema ChambiriDeep Cut85points
- Kit MalthouseDeep Cut85points
- Kitanywa SowediDeep Cut85points
- Kithure KindikiDeep Cut85points
- Kiti PeterDeep Cut85points
- Kitila MkumboDeep Cut85points
- Kitilai Ole NtutuDeep Cut85points
- Kitisak MuensriDeep Cut85points
- Kitiyo PatrickDeep Cut85points
- Kitnan SelvarajDeep Cut85points
- Kitoko Gata NgoulouDeep Cut85points
- Kittanya WajadeeDeep Cut85points
- Kitti KittithornkulDeep Cut85points
- Kittichai EngchuanDeep Cut85points
- Kittichai TechakulwanitDeep Cut85points
- Kittiphan AnantakunchirachotDeep Cut85points
- Kittipong PiyawannoDeep Cut85points
- Kittisak PromratDeep Cut85points
- Kitty UssherDeep Cut85points
- Kitumahini debirira DidierDeep Cut85points
- Kiwanuka AbdallahDeep Cut85points
- Kiwanuka KeefaDeep Cut85points
- Kiwanuka SulaimanDeep Cut85points
- Kiyimba EmmanuelDeep Cut85points
- Kiyoko MoriharaDeep Cut85points
- Kiyomi TsujimotoDeep Cut85points
- Kiyoshi EjimaDeep Cut85points
- Kiyoshi IgarashiDeep Cut85points
- Kiyoshi NakajōDeep Cut85points
- Kiyoshi OdawaraDeep Cut85points
- Kiyoshi UedaDeep Cut85points
- Kiyoshi WakasaDeep Cut85points
- Kiyoto TsujiDeep Cut85points
- Kiz JohnsonDeep Cut85points
- Kizza Hakim SawulaDeep Cut85points
- Kjell Vander ElstDeep Cut85points
- Kjell-Arne OttossonDeep Cut85points
- Kjersti Ertresvaag AndersenDeep Cut85points
- Kjersti StensengDeep Cut85points
- Kjersti ToppeDeep Cut85points
- Klaas SlootmansDeep 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.