Recorded answers
35,852 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 35,852
- Abdellah BaillatDeep Cut85points
- Abdellah BouanouDeep Cut85points
- Abdellah El AlaouiDeep Cut85points
- Abdellah El BoukiliDeep Cut85points
- Abdellah GhaziDeep Cut85points
- Abdellah HamalDeep Cut85points
- Abdellah HanaouiDeep Cut85points
- Abdellah MoussaDeep Cut85points
- Abdellah OubarkaDeep Cut85points
- Abdellahi Edd AbaddaDeep Cut85points
- Abdellahi Ould SouleymaneDeep Cut85points
- Abdellatif BenyakoubDeep Cut85points
- Abdellatif BerrohoDeep Cut85points
- Abdellatif El AidiDeep Cut85points
- Abdellatif El-FouikarDeep Cut85points
- Abdellatif JouahriDeep Cut85points
- Abdellatif LoudiyiDeep Cut85points
- Abdellatif OuahbiDeep Cut85points
- Abdellatif RachidDeep Cut85points
- Abdellatif ZaimDeep Cut85points
- Abdelmadjid Abderahim MahamatDeep Cut85points
- Abdelmadjid TebbouneDeep Cut85points
- Abdelmajid Fassi-FihriDeep Cut85points
- Abdelmalek TachriftDeep Cut85points
- Abdelmjid Ait LaadilaDeep Cut85points
- Abdelmjid JoubijDeep Cut85points
- Abdelmunim al-OUDATDeep Cut85points
- Abdelouafi LaftitDeep Cut85points
- Abdelouahad El MassaoudiDeep Cut85points
- Abdelouahed El AnsariDeep Cut85points
- Abdelouahid BouharchaDeep Cut85points
- Abdelrahman Al Sadig Al MahdiDeep Cut85points
- Abdelrahman BizriDeep Cut85points
- Abdelraouf al-RawabdehDeep Cut85points
- Abderahim Awad AtteibDeep Cut85points
- Abderahim Breme HamidDeep Cut85points
- Abderrafi JouahriDeep Cut85points
- Abderrahim ChahidDeep Cut85points
- Abderrahim LaqraaDeep Cut85points
- Abderrahim OuaamarDeep Cut85points
- Abderrahim QanirDeep Cut85points
- Abderrahman El AmriDeep Cut85points
- Abderrahman HarfiDeep Cut85points
- Abderrahmane KhayrDeep Cut85points
- Abderrazzak El OuarzaziDeep Cut85points
- Abderrazzak Nait DbouDeep Cut85points
- Abdeslam BouchouarebDeep Cut85points
- Abdeslam El YousofiDeep Cut85points
- Abdessamad ArchaneDeep Cut85points
- Abdessamad KayouhDeep 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.