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
- Lea WermelinDeep Cut85points
- Leah BlythDeep Cut85points
- Leah CamposDeep Cut85points
- Leah GazanDeep Cut85points
- Leah PotgieterDeep Cut85points
- Leah SopiatoDeep Cut85points
- Leala'ilepule Rimoni AiafiDeep Cut85points
- Leandro Kunstmann ColladoDeep Cut85points
- Leandro LevisteDeep Cut85points
- Leandro Rizzuto Jr.Deep Cut85points
- Leanid ZajacDeep Cut85points
- Leany LemosDeep Cut85points
- Leatigaga Matafai IigaDeep Cut85points
- Leatinu'u Wayne So'oialoDeep Cut85points
- Lebona LephemaDeep Cut85points
- Lech ParellDeep Cut85points
- Lêda BorgesDeep Cut85points
- Ledama OlekinaDeep Cut85points
- Ledy Andrea Zuñiga RochaDeep Cut85points
- Ledy Coromoto Torres ValeroDeep Cut85points
- Lee AndersonDeep Cut85points
- Lee BarronDeep Cut85points
- Lee Byung-jinDeep Cut85points
- Lee Chang-daeDeep Cut85points
- Lee Chean ChungDeep Cut85points
- Lee Chin-yungDeep Cut85points
- Lee Choon-suakDeep Cut85points
- Lee Chuan HowDeep Cut85points
- Lee Chul-gyuDeep Cut85points
- Lee Dal-heeDeep Cut85points
- Lee DillonDeep Cut85points
- Lee Eun-hoDeep Cut85points
- Lee Geon-taeDeep Cut85points
- Lee Guo-shinDeep Cut85points
- Lee Hack-youngDeep Cut85points
- Lee Hae-minDeep Cut85points
- Lee Hae-sikDeep Cut85points
- Lee Heng-chunDeep Cut85points
- Lee Hong ChuangDeep Cut85points
- Lee Hoon-giDeep Cut85points
- Lee Hui YingDeep Cut85points
- Lee Hui-chihDeep Cut85points
- Lee Hun-seungDeep Cut85points
- Lee Hyoung-ilDeep Cut85points
- Lee In-youngDeep Cut85points
- Lee Jae-gangDeep Cut85points
- Lee Jae-gwanDeep Cut85points
- Lee Jae-jungDeep Cut85points
- Lee Jong-baeDeep Cut85points
- Lee Jong-seokDeep 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.