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
- Mohammad Hasan AkhundDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Hassan GhiasiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Hassan HabibollahzadehDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad HdeibDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Hossein BayatiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Hossein MohammadiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Humayun MohmandDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Ilyas ChoudharyDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Ishaq AsimDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Ishtiyaq RayiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Ja'far GhaempanahDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad JalaliDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad JamalianDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Javad AsgariDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Javad IravaniDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad JawedDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Kaab OmairDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad KatawDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad KhalaylehDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad KhalidDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Khalid HanafiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad KhawajaDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Khosh SimaDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Manan RaisiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Mazharul IslamDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Mehdi FarvardinDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Mehdi MofattehDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Mehdi ShahriariDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad MilhemDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad MirzaeiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Mohsin HashimiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad MokhberDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad MolaviDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad MomaniDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Moslehuddin FaridDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad MotamedizadehDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad MustafaDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Nidal al-ShaarDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Noor DahaniDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Nurul IslamDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad PakmehrDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Qasim FaridDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Qassim OsmaniDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad QudahDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad RashidiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Rasool SheikhiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Raza Hayat HarrajDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Reza ArefDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Reza Fallah TaftiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Reza Mohseni ThaniDeep 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.