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
- Lulezon JagxhiuDeep Cut85points
- Lulu Guyo MwachaDeep Cut85points
- Lulu RanneDeep Cut85points
- Lumbaram ChoudharyDeep Cut85points
- Luminița Păucean-FernandesDeep Cut85points
- Lumumba Justine KasuleDeep Cut85points
- Lungile MhlongoDeep Cut85points
- Lungisani ShangaseDeep Cut85points
- Lungten DorjiDeep Cut85points
- Luo JesseDeep Cut85points
- Luong Tam QuangDeep Cut85points
- Lupematasila Tologata Tile LeiaDeep Cut85points
- Lurdelis Cárdenas JiménezDeep Cut85points
- Lurdes Milagros Layne ValdézDeep Cut85points
- Lusizo Makhubela-MasheleDeep Cut85points
- Lutaagiin EnkhnasanDeep Cut85points
- Lutchmanah PentiahDeep Cut85points
- Lutfee Hayi-ItaeDeep Cut85points
- Lutfi RaufDeep Cut85points
- Lutfor RahmanDeep Cut85points
- Lutfor Rahman Khan AzadDeep Cut85points
- Lutfozzaman BabarDeep Cut85points
- Lutfullah KhairkhwaDeep Cut85points
- Lutfur RahmanDeep Cut85points
- Luther WengeDeep Cut85points
- Luthfullahel MazedDeep Cut85points
- Lutz BrinkmannDeep Cut85points
- Luul GebreabDeep Cut85points
- Luvsanbyambaagiin MönkhbayasgalanDeep Cut85points
- Luvsannamsrain Oyun-ErdeneDeep Cut85points
- Luvsannyamyn GantömörDeep Cut85points
- Luyimbazi Nalukoola EliasDeep Cut85points
- Luyolo MphithiDeep Cut85points
- Luz Adriana CamargoDeep Cut85points
- Luz Angélica SmithDeep Cut85points
- Luz Elena Gonzalez EscobarDeep Cut85points
- Luz Ernestina MejíaDeep Cut85points
- Luz María Rodríguez PérezDeep Cut85points
- Luz Marina Gordillo SalinasDeep Cut85points
- Luz Miryan MoncayoDeep Cut85points
- Luz PachecoDeep Cut85points
- Luz RivasDeep Cut85points
- Luz SotoDeep Cut85points
- Luz Verónica Estrada HolguínDeep Cut85points
- Luzmila Aurora Patino MoralesDeep Cut85points
- Luzmila María del Carmen Gamarra PitaDeep Cut85points
- Lwansasula SarahDeep Cut85points
- Lwin Ko LattDeep Cut85points
- Lyazzat KaltaevaDeep Cut85points
- Lydia del CantoDeep 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.