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 Reza Naseri YazdiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Reza Raouf SheibaniDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Reza Rezaei KouchiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Reza SabaghianDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Reza ZafarghandiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Riaz FatyanaDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad RonaDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad RostamiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad SabziDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Sadat EbrahimiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad SaeediDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Saleh JokarDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Salman OmerDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Sameh HamedhDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad SargaziDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad SewarDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Shamim KaiserDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Sharif bin IbrahimDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Shofiqul Haque MilonDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad SirajDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad SkafDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Taghi Naghd AliDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Taghi RajabiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Tala MazloumiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad UllahDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Usman BadiniDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad YaqoobDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad YasinDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Younus AkhundzadaDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad Zahirul IslamDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad-Bagher GhalibafDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad-Reza FakerDeep Cut85points
- Mohammad-Reza Modarresi YazdiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammadreza Ahmadi SangariDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Abdi AbdulazizDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed AbdoDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Abdul BariDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Abdul MaliqueDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Abu al-Khair ShukriDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Abul HasanDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Adams SukparuDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Adamu RamadanDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Ahmed Al-MahdiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Ahmed AliyeDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Ahmed MusaDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed AkteruzzamanDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Al MamariDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed al-AhmadDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed al-BashirDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Al-HadhramiDeep 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.