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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 KovacicDeep Cut85points
- Maria KoźlakiewiczDeep Cut85points
- Maria KurowskaDeep Cut85points
- María Lorena PetrovichDeep Cut85points
- María Lourdes Sangróniz GuerricagoitiaDeep Cut85points
- María Lucía Villalba GómezDeep Cut85points
- María Luisa Balaguer CallejónDeep Cut85points
- Maria Luisa BertiDeep Cut85points
- María Luisa Faneca LópezDeep Cut85points
- María Luisa González CabelloDeep Cut85points
- María Luisa González EstevarenaDeep Cut85points
- Maria Luisa HayemDeep Cut85points
- María Luisa Mendoza MondragónDeep Cut85points
- María Luisa SegovianoDeep Cut85points
- María Luisa Silupú IngaDeep Cut85points
- Maria Luiza Ribeiro ViottiDeep Cut85points
- María Luz Martínez SeijoDeep Cut85points
- Maria Lvova-BelovaDeep Cut85points
- María Magdalena Rosales CruzDeep Cut85points
- Maria Małgorzata JanyskaDeep Cut85points
- Maria Malmer StenergardDeep Cut85points
- Maria Manuela LucasDeep Cut85points
- María Mar Blanca GarridoDeep Cut85points
- María Mar Caballero MartínezDeep Cut85points
- Maria Margarete GosseDeep Cut85points
- María Martina Kantún CanDeep Cut85points
- Maria McCormackDeep Cut85points
- María Mercè Perea i ConillasDeep Cut85points
- María Mercedes Fernández GonzálezDeep Cut85points
- María Mercedes Ortiz DilonéDeep Cut85points
- Maria MezentsevaDeep Cut85points
- Maria MichailDeep Cut85points
- Maria Miguel Carrasquel RinconesDeep Cut85points
- María Montserrat Rivas de la TorreDeep Cut85points
- Maria Nel Alvarado SevillaDeep Cut85points
- Maria NeumannDeep Cut85points
- María Nieves Blanco DíazDeep Cut85points
- María Nohemí Arboleda ArangoDeep Cut85points
- Maria Nyehok WilliamDeep Cut85points
- Maria Odeth TavaresDeep Cut85points
- Maria OhisaloDeep Cut85points
- Maria Paola BoscainiDeep Cut85points
- María Patricio ZafraDeep Cut85points
- María Paula Villacreses HerreraDeep Cut85points
- Maria Paz ArzolaDeep Cut85points
- Maria PhaoprathanDeep Cut85points
- Maria PolyzouDeep Cut85points
- María Ramos RosalesDeep Cut85points
- Maria Raquel Ponce SilesDeep Cut85points
- María Regla Díaz LeónDeep 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.