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
- Maria Benvinda LeviDeep Cut85points
- María Besibell Mendoza IbarraDeep Cut85points
- Maria ByrneDeep Cut85points
- María Camila Salas SalasDeep Cut85points
- María Carmen Castilla ÁlvarezDeep Cut85points
- María Carmen da Silva MéndezDeep Cut85points
- María Carmen Isabel Pobo SánchezDeep Cut85points
- María Carmen Riolobos RegaderaDeep Cut85points
- María Carolina Chávez GonzálezDeep Cut85points
- María Carolina MoisesDeep Cut85points
- Maria Carolina VarchiDeep Cut85points
- Maria Cattebeke de OrtizDeep Cut85points
- Maria Cecilia GuerraDeep Cut85points
- María Cecilia IbañezDeep Cut85points
- María Celeste Giménez NavarroDeep Cut85points
- María Celeste PonceDeep Cut85points
- Maria Chiara GaddaDeep Cut85points
- María Clara Girbau RondaDeep Cut85points
- María Clara Posada CaicedoDeep Cut85points
- Maria Cleofe Rayos NatividadDeep Cut85points
- María Constancia BenitezDeep Cut85points
- María Consuelo Araujo CastroDeep Cut85points
- María Consuelo NguemaDeep Cut85points
- Maria Cristina Acuña VacaDeep Cut85points
- Maria Cristina CantùDeep Cut85points
- Maria Cristina CarettaDeep Cut85points
- María Cristina GajardoDeep Cut85points
- María Cristina Rubio BlascoDeep Cut85points
- Maria Cuandina Tchipepa de CarvalhoDeep Cut85points
- Maria da Conceição Mendonça Caldeira de PalmaDeep Cut85points
- Maria Da Conceicao Nobre CabralDeep Cut85points
- Maria da Graca CarvalhoDeep Cut85points
- María Damaris Silva SantiagoDeep Cut85points
- María de Fátima García LeónDeep Cut85points
- Maria de Fátima Mwanza PelembeDeep Cut85points
- Maria de Fátima Republicano de Lima ViegasDeep Cut85points
- María de Jesús Díaz MarmolejoDeep Cut85points
- María de las Nieves Ramírez MorenoDeep Cut85points
- María de los Ángeles Falcón ÁlvarezDeep Cut85points
- María de los Ángeles Luna MoralesDeep Cut85points
- María de los Dolores Padierna LunaDeep Cut85points
- María de los Reyes Romero VilchesDeep Cut85points
- María De Lourdes León GiboryDeep Cut85points
- Maria de Lourdes Roque Caposso FernandesDeep Cut85points
- María del Carmen Bautista PeláezDeep Cut85points
- María del Carmen Leyte CoelloDeep Cut85points
- María del Carmen Mayusa de CruzDeep Cut85points
- María del Carmen Nava GarcíaDeep Cut85points
- María del Carmen Pérez BecerraDeep Cut85points
- María del Carmen Silva RegoDeep 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.