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
- Mohamed IhouiyetDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Ismail Ahmed Al-arhabiDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Issa AbushahabDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed JbilDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed JoudarDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Juldeh JallohDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed KarroukDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Khaled NordinDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed KhayiDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Kortekila SalehDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Koysor AhmedDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed LachgarDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Lahbib NazoumeDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed LahmouchDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Lamine Sy SavaneDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Lemine Ould DhehbyDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed M. Abou El EneinDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed MaaitDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Mahmoud Ould ElyDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed MalalDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed MarzoukDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed MchengerwaDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Mehdi BensaidDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Melainine Ould EyihDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed MuizzuDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Mursal Sheikh AbdurahmanDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed MusseDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Nabil DaabesDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed NiushadDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Nourouddine AfraitaneDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Orman BanguraDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Ould ErrachidDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Ould GhazouaniDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Ould KhaledDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Ould SoueidattDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed OurricheDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Rahman SwarayDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Rished AbdallahDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Saad BerradaDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed SadikiDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed SaeedDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Salem Ould MerzougDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Seddik Ait MessaoudeneDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Seghir SaadaouiDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed ShabanaDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Shaheem Ali SaeedDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Sharael TahaDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Shawky AyadDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed Siad DoualehDeep Cut85points
- Mohamed SimouDeep 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.