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
- Milton PuertoDeep Cut85points
- Milton VieiraDeep Cut85points
- Milton Virgilio Carreño SánchezDeep Cut85points
- Milton Ysrael Morales RojasDeep Cut85points
- Miltos ChrysomallisDeep Cut85points
- Miltos ZamparasDeep Cut85points
- Milun ZogovićDeep Cut85points
- Milutin ĐurovićDeep Cut85points
- Milva EkonomiDeep Cut85points
- Mimi KodheliDeep Cut85points
- Mímir KristjánssonDeep Cut85points
- Mimmy GondweDeep Cut85points
- Mimouna AftatiDeep Cut85points
- Mimoza Kusari LilaDeep Cut85points
- Mims DaviesDeep Cut85points
- Min Aung HlaingDeep Cut85points
- Min Byoung-dugDeep Cut85points
- Min Hong-chulDeep Cut85points
- Min Hyung-baeDeep Cut85points
- Min Li MartiDeep Cut85points
- Min NaungDeep Cut85points
- Mina Singh RakhalDeep Cut85points
- Mina TalbiDeep Cut85points
- Mindaugas LingėDeep Cut85points
- Mindaugas SinkevičiusDeep Cut85points
- Minelvis Gálvez LeyvaDeep Cut85points
- Minette BattersDeep Cut85points
- Minette Libom Li LikengDeep Cut85points
- Mingma Gyabu SherpaDeep Cut85points
- Minja KoskelaDeep Cut85points
- Minna ReijonenDeep Cut85points
- Minoru KiharaDeep Cut85points
- Minoru KiuchiDeep Cut85points
- Minoru TeradaDeep Cut85points
- Minoska Cadalso NavarroDeep Cut85points
- Minosoa Anjaratiana Elia RazafindrianiainaDeep Cut85points
- Minouche ShafikDeep Cut85points
- Miodrag LakovićDeep Cut85points
- Miqdam Ali al-Jash'amDeep Cut85points
- Miquella Soemar-HuurDeep Cut85points
- Mir Ahmad BinquasemDeep Cut85points
- Mir Amer Ali Khan MagsiDeep Cut85points
- Mir Dostain Khan DomkiDeep Cut85points
- Mir Ghulam Ali TalpurDeep Cut85points
- Mir Khan Muhammad JamaliDeep Cut85points
- Mir Mohammed Helal UddinDeep Cut85points
- Mir Munawar Ali TalpurDeep Cut85points
- Mir Shabbir Ali BijaraniDeep Cut85points
- Mir Shahe AlamDeep Cut85points
- Mira NieminenDeep 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.