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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
- Marwan HamadehDeep Cut85points
- Marwan QutaishatDeep Cut85points
- Marwick KhumaloDeep Cut85points
- Marx BeltrãoDeep Cut85points
- Mary Akec MachiekDeep Cut85points
- Mary Akech BiorDeep Cut85points
- Mary AldredDeep Cut85points
- Mary Alphonse Nadio LodiraDeep Cut85points
- Mary Anne CarterDeep Cut85points
- Mary Apar DengDeep Cut85points
- Mary AraujoDeep Cut85points
- Mary Atong BakDeep Cut85points
- Mary Ayen MijokDeep Cut85points
- Mary Babirye KabandaDeep Cut85points
- Mary BegumisaDeep Cut85points
- Mary Bibiana Armenta ValenciaDeep Cut85points
- Mary Bicensio WaniDeep Cut85points
- Mary BoustedDeep Cut85points
- Mary ButlerDeep Cut85points
- Mary Carmen Bernal MartínezDeep Cut85points
- Mary CoyleDeep Cut85points
- Mary CreaghDeep Cut85points
- Mary Daniel SuratiDeep Cut85points
- Mary DoyleDeep Cut85points
- Mary Elizabeth Flores FlakeDeep Cut85points
- Mary FiersDeep Cut85points
- Mary FitzpatrickDeep Cut85points
- Mary GamalDeep Cut85points
- Mary Garang AneiDeep Cut85points
- Mary Gay ScanlonDeep Cut85points
- Mary GirgisDeep Cut85points
- Mary GlindonDeep Cut85points
- Mary Goretti KitutuDeep Cut85points
- Mary GoudieDeep Cut85points
- Mary Isaac DanielDeep Cut85points
- Mary Jane McCallumDeep Cut85points
- Mary Jarvis YakDeep Cut85points
- Mary JockDeep Cut85points
- Mary Jok BukjokDeep Cut85points
- Mary Jurado PalominoDeep Cut85points
- Mary Kelly FoyDeep Cut85points
- Mary Kiden EnokaDeep Cut85points
- Mary Kongkong JamesDeep Cut85points
- Mary Lou McDonaldDeep Cut85points
- Mary MaingiDeep Cut85points
- Mary MillerDeep Cut85points
- Mary MoreauDeep Cut85points
- Mary Muyali Boya épouse MebokaDeep Cut85points
- Mary NavichaDeep Cut85points
- Mary Nawai MartinDeep 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.