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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
- Mary Ndlangisa-NodadaDeep Cut85points
- Mary Nyanut Ring MacharDeep Cut85points
- Mary Nyariek LorjokDeep Cut85points
- Mary Nyaulang RetDeep Cut85points
- Mary Nyawal CholDeep Cut85points
- Mary NyawulangDeep Cut85points
- Mary Nyiyom LualDeep Cut85points
- Mary Otucho EmaaseDeep Cut85points
- Mary Paul NgundengDeep Cut85points
- Mary Peter La BanyjiekDeep Cut85points
- Mary Peter LiahDeep Cut85points
- Mary Puru MichaelDeep Cut85points
- Mary RobinsonDeep Cut85points
- Mary Wamaua Waithira NjorogeDeep Cut85points
- Mary WatkinsDeep Cut85points
- Mary Yual BadengDeep Cut85points
- Mary-Ann DunjwaDeep Cut85points
- Maryam AbdulahiDeep Cut85points
- Maryam Al HammadiDeep Cut85points
- Maryam MariyaDeep Cut85points
- Maryam Ussi YahyaDeep Cut85points
- Maryama BoujemaaDeep Cut85points
- Maryana BezuhlaDeep Cut85points
- Marydé Fernández LópezDeep Cut85points
- Maryna LiančewskajaDeep Cut85points
- Maryna NikitinaDeep Cut85points
- Maryse CarrèreDeep Cut85points
- Maryse IskandarDeep Cut85points
- Marzena Anna MachałekDeep Cut85points
- Marzena Okła-DrewnowiczDeep Cut85points
- Marzia BegumDeep Cut85points
- Mas Ermieyati SamsudinDeep Cut85points
- Masaaki KoikeDeep Cut85points
- Masaaki OkaDeep Cut85points
- Masaaki TairaDeep Cut85points
- Masaaki TaniaiDeep Cut85points
- Masaaki WakiDeep Cut85points
- Masaaki YamazakiDeep Cut85points
- Masaba KarimDeep Cut85points
- Masaba Muhamood MutenyoDeep Cut85points
- Masae IdoDeep Cut85points
- Masafumi SasakiDeep Cut85points
- Masagos ZulkifliDeep Cut85points
- Masahiko KondōDeep Cut85points
- Masahiko ShibayamaDeep Cut85points
- Masahiro HirakiDeep Cut85points
- Masahiro IshidaDeep Cut85points
- Masahiro KōmuraDeep Cut85points
- Masahiro UeharaDeep Cut85points
- Masahisa MiyazakiDeep 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.