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
- Luis Carlos Avila ChavezDeep Cut85points
- Luis Carlos HeinzeDeep Cut85points
- Luis Carlos Manuel Gomez RudyDeep Cut85points
- Luis Carlos Rúa SánchezDeep Cut85points
- Luis Carlos Sahuquillo GarcíaDeep Cut85points
- Luis Clodoaldo Velázquez PérezDeep Cut85points
- Luis CoelloDeep Cut85points
- Luis ContrerasDeep Cut85points
- Luís DiasDeep Cut85points
- Luis Domingo Laino GuanesDeep Cut85points
- Luis Donaldo Colosio RiojasDeep Cut85points
- Luis DukeDeep Cut85points
- Luis DyerDeep Cut85points
- Luis Edgardo Chavez VacaDeep Cut85points
- Luis Eduardo CamachoDeep Cut85points
- Luis Eduardo Díaz MateusDeep Cut85points
- Luis Eduardo Parra RiveroDeep Cut85points
- Luis Emilio Rondon HernandezDeep Cut85points
- Luis Enrique Chavez BasagoitiaDeep Cut85points
- Luis Enrique Llópiz RosabalDeep Cut85points
- Luis Enrique Martínez VenturaDeep Cut85points
- Luis Enrique Miranda BarreraDeep Cut85points
- Luis Esteban Vásquez RodríguezDeep Cut85points
- Luis Eugenio BasterraDeep Cut85points
- Luís Fernandes do NascimentoDeep Cut85points
- Luis Fernando Ballesteros MezaDeep Cut85points
- Luis Fernando Jácome MejíaDeep Cut85points
- Luis Fernando Laredo ArellanoDeep Cut85points
- Luis Fernando Molina OnofaDeep Cut85points
- Luis Fernando RamirezDeep Cut85points
- Luis Fernando Salazar FernándezDeep Cut85points
- Luis Fernando Soto RojasDeep Cut85points
- Luis Fernando Vargas RomanDeep Cut85points
- Luis Fernando Vilchis ContrerasDeep Cut85points
- Luís Filipe TavaresDeep Cut85points
- Luis Francisco Vacas García-AlósDeep Cut85points
- Luís Franco AlfaroDeep Cut85points
- Luis GalarretaDeep Cut85points
- Luis Gerardo Sánchez SánchezDeep Cut85points
- Luís GraçaDeep Cut85points
- Luis Guillermo Patiño AristizábalDeep Cut85points
- Luis Humberto Aldana NavarroDeep Cut85points
- Luis Humberto Fernández FuentesDeep Cut85points
- Luis Jaramillo GranjaDeep Cut85points
- Luis Javier Santamaría RuizDeep Cut85points
- Luis Jesús Uribe-Etxebarria ApalategiDeep Cut85points
- Luis JibajaDeep Cut85points
- Luis López BolañosDeep Cut85points
- Luis Malla ValenzuelaDeep Cut85points
- Luis Manuel Cuesta CivísDeep 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.