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
- Michele Schiano Di ViscontiDeep Cut85points
- Michèle TabarotDeep Cut85points
- Micheline JacquesDeep Cut85points
- Micheline OmbayeDeep Cut85points
- Michella Haingotiana Adrienne AndriamadisonDeep Cut85points
- Michelle Ananda-RajahDeep Cut85points
- Michelle BenjaminDeep Cut85points
- Michelle BowmanDeep Cut85points
- Michelle CampbellDeep Cut85points
- Michelle FischbachDeep Cut85points
- Michelle GordonDeep Cut85points
- Michelle GréaumeDeep Cut85points
- Michelle GuyDeep Cut85points
- Michelle JagtenbergDeep Cut85points
- Michelle LandryDeep Cut85points
- Michelle McIlveenDeep Cut85points
- Michelle MoneDeep Cut85points
- Michelle MouangaDeep Cut85points
- Michelle O'BonsawinDeep Cut85points
- Michelle O'NeillDeep Cut85points
- Michelle Rempel GarnerDeep Cut85points
- Michelle RowlandDeep Cut85points
- Michelle ScroghamDeep Cut85points
- Michelle SteelDeep Cut85points
- Michelle WelshDeep Cut85points
- Michiel HoogeveenDeep Cut85points
- Michiharu HayashiDeep Cut85points
- Michihiro IshibashiDeep Cut85points
- Michihito KanekoDeep Cut85points
- Michiko UenoDeep Cut85points
- Michio KawaiDeep Cut85points
- Michiya HagaDeep Cut85points
- Michket Slama KhaldiDeep Cut85points
- Michrist Kaba-MbokoDeep Cut85points
- Mickaël BoulouxDeep Cut85points
- Mickaël CossonDeep Cut85points
- Mickaël ValletDeep Cut85points
- Mickey LevyDeep Cut85points
- Midala Usman BalamiDeep Cut85points
- Midelis Vicet FernándezDeep Cut85points
- Midori MatsushimaDeep Cut85points
- Midori TannoDeep Cut85points
- Mietani ChaukeDeep Cut85points
- Mifleh Al-RahimiDeep Cut85points
- Migadde Robert NdugwaDeep Cut85points
- Miguel Alejandro Alonso ReyesDeep Cut85points
- Miguel Ángel Adrián GutiérrezDeep Cut85points
- Miguel Ángel Barreto CastilloDeep Cut85points
- Miguel Ángel CamposDeep Cut85points
- Miguel Ángel Castellón RubioDeep 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.