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
- Marco Antonio Peñín ToledanoDeep Cut85points
- Marco Antonio Sulantay OlivaresDeep Cut85points
- Marco Antonio Villeda SandovalDeep Cut85points
- Marco Aurelio GonzalezDeep Cut85points
- Marco CerretoDeep Cut85points
- Marco ChiesaDeep Cut85points
- Marco ClaudinoDeep Cut85points
- Marco CroattiDeep Cut85points
- Marco D'AlbertiDeep Cut85points
- Marco DreostoDeep Cut85points
- Marco Emilio Hincapie RamírezDeep Cut85points
- Marco FelicianoDeep Cut85points
- Marco Francisco Badilla ChavarríaDeep Cut85points
- Marco FurfaroDeep Cut85points
- Marco GattiDeep Cut85points
- Marco GrimaldiDeep Cut85points
- Marco LacarraDeep Cut85points
- Marco LiseiDeep Cut85points
- Marco LombardoDeep Cut85points
- Marco MaradiagaDeep Cut85points
- Marco Mejía AlfaroDeep Cut85points
- Marco MeloniDeep Cut85points
- Marco MidenceDeep Cut85points
- Marco MiyashiroDeep Cut85points
- Marco MularoniDeep Cut85points
- Marco OsnatoDeep Cut85points
- Marco PadovaniDeep Cut85points
- Marco Patricio Olmedo AriasDeep Cut85points
- Marco PellegriniDeep Cut85points
- Marco Pérez ToribioDeep Cut85points
- Marco PerissaDeep Cut85points
- Marco Ramiro LoboDeep Cut85points
- Marco RodríguezDeep Cut85points
- Marco SarracinoDeep Cut85points
- Marco SchreuderDeep Cut85points
- Marco ScurriaDeep Cut85points
- Marco SilvestroniDeep Cut85points
- Marco SimianiDeep Cut85points
- Marco TinocoDeep Cut85points
- Marco Tulio Abadie AguilarDeep Cut85points
- Marco VinelliDeep Cut85points
- Marcos Antonio Amaro dos SantosDeep Cut85points
- Marcos Aurélio SampaioDeep Cut85points
- Marcos Barraza GómezDeep Cut85points
- Marcos BorgesDeep Cut85points
- Marcos CastilleroDeep Cut85points
- Marcos Da CruzDeep Cut85points
- Marcos Daniel Pineda GarcíaDeep Cut85points
- Marcos do ValDeep Cut85points
- Marcos Humberto Alvarado EspinelDeep 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.