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
- Laurynas KasčiūnasDeep Cut85points
- Laurynas ŠedvydisDeep Cut85points
- Laus Omar MhinaDeep Cut85points
- Lautaro Sandino MontesDeep Cut85points
- Lautimuia Uelese VaʻaiDeep Cut85points
- Lavea Solomona PauloDeep Cut85points
- Lavender MakoniDeep Cut85points
- Laveric Liwa DongoroDeep Cut85points
- Laverne VeloxDeep Cut85points
- Lavinia MennuniDeep Cut85points
- Lavu Sri Krishna DevarayaluDeep Cut85points
- Lawal Adamu UsmanDeep Cut85points
- Lawen RedarDeep Cut85points
- Laworyen Ibon KorlemDeep Cut85points
- Lawrence AgyinsamDeep Cut85points
- Lawrence IbonDeep Cut85points
- Lawrence MangushoDeep Cut85points
- Lawrence Mpuru AburiDeep Cut85points
- Lawrence Xu-NanDeep Cut85points
- Lawrencia DziwornuDeep Cut85points
- Lawson Tabot BakiaDeep Cut85points
- Laxmi Kant BajpaiDeep Cut85points
- Laxmi Prasad PokharelDeep Cut85points
- Laxmi VermaDeep Cut85points
- Laxmikant Pappu NishadDeep Cut85points
- Laye Sekou CamaraDeep Cut85points
- Layla MoranDeep Cut85points
- Layra Hurtado RamírezDeep Cut85points
- Layth ArafaDeep Cut85points
- LazafenoDeep Cut85points
- Lazare Makayat SafouesseDeep Cut85points
- Lazaro Alberto Alvarez CasasDeep Cut85points
- Lázaro Alejandro Romero ÁlvarezDeep Cut85points
- Lázaro Bárbaro Torres DelgadoDeep Cut85points
- Lázaro de Oliveira Guelson KakunhaDeep Cut85points
- Lazaro Samuel NyalanduDeep Cut85points
- Lázarojim Alberto Campos MartínezDeep Cut85points
- Lazaros TsavdaridisDeep Cut85points
- Lazarous KapambweDeep Cut85points
- Lazarous Permena FarajallaDeep Cut85points
- Lazarus You Heung-sikDeep Cut85points
- Laziz QudratovDeep Cut85points
- Lê Hoài TrungDeep Cut85points
- Lê Minh HoanDeep Cut85points
- Lê Minh HưngDeep Cut85points
- Lê Tiến ChâuDeep Cut85points
- Léa Balage El MarikyDeep Cut85points
- Lea Danilson-JärgDeep Cut85points
- Lea Mboua Koyasoum-DoumtaDeep Cut85points
- Lea ReisnerDeep 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.