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 FonsecaDeep Cut85points
- Maria ForsbergDeep Cut85points
- Maria FortesDeep Cut85points
- María Francisca Bello CamposDeep Cut85points
- Maria Gabriela FloresDeep Cut85points
- María Gabriela Molina MenéndezDeep Cut85points
- Maria Gabriela Vallenilla MendozaDeep Cut85points
- María Gabriela Vega SosaDeep Cut85points
- Maria GonțaDeep Cut85points
- María Graciela de la RosaDeep Cut85points
- María Graciela Gaitán DíazDeep Cut85points
- María Graciela ParolaDeep Cut85points
- Maria Grazia FrijiaDeep Cut85points
- María Guadalupe Morales RubioDeep Cut85points
- Mária GurzóDeep Cut85points
- Maria IlievaDeep Cut85points
- Maria Immacolata VietriDeep Cut85points
- María Inés ObaldíaDeep Cut85points
- María Inés ZigaránDeep Cut85points
- María Iris Varela RangelDeep Cut85points
- María Irma Noreña ArboledaDeep Cut85points
- María Isabel Camareno CamarenoDeep Cut85points
- Maria Isabel Castillo BaezDeep Cut85points
- Maria Isabel Gomes Godinho de Resende EncogeDeep Cut85points
- María Isabel Moreno CortezDeep Cut85points
- María Isabel Moreno DuqueDeep Cut85points
- María Isabel Rodríguez HerediaDeep Cut85points
- María Isabel Vizcarrondo ValeryDeep Cut85points
- María Isidra De la Luz RivasDeep Cut85points
- María Janeth Sabogal RoblesDeep Cut85points
- María Jesús Bonilla DomínguezDeep Cut85points
- María Jesús MonteroDeep Cut85points
- Maria Jesus WulfDeep Cut85points
- Maria José AguiarDeep Cut85points
- María José García-Pelayo JuradoDeep Cut85points
- María José GaticaDeep Cut85points
- Maria José LucasDeep Cut85points
- María José Ortega GómezDeep Cut85points
- María José Pardo PumarDeep Cut85points
- María José PintoDeep Cut85points
- María José Rodríguez de Millán ParroDeep Cut85points
- Maria Jose Soruco ChaconDeep Cut85points
- María José SosaDeep Cut85points
- María José Villalva ChavarríaDeep Cut85points
- Maria Jufereva-SkuratovskiDeep Cut85points
- Maria KarapetyanDeep Cut85points
- Maria Katia SavorettiDeep Cut85points
- Maria Khaline Moreno CardenasDeep Cut85points
- Maria KocDeep Cut85points
- Maria KomninakaDeep 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.