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
- Mohammed Al-JadaanDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed al-MannaiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed al-TarihaDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Ali YassinDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed AmeurDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Amin AdamDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Aminur RashidDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Amour ChombonDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed AnjraniDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed AsaduzzmanDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Baba IdrisDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed BalasDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed bin Abdullah Al ThaniDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Yousef Al-SulaitiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al ThaniDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed bin Mubarak bin DainaDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed bin Rashid Al MaktoumDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed bin Zayed Al NahyanDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed DalwanDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Enamul HoqueDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Fadel Al MazroueiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Fahim ChowdhuryDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Fakrul IslamDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed HarunaDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Hassan AbuDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed IbrahimiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed IdrisDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Inuwa BassiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Isa AkhundDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Issah BatagliaDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed JallowDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed JumaDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Kamal HossainDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed KarimeDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed KhalidDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Lamine LebbouDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Mohammedkemal Ali Al-ArusiDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed MohandisDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Moqbel al-HimyariDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Mostaqur RahmanDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Nadimul HaqueDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Ogoshi OnawoDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed QahtanDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Shahid Uddin Chowdhury AneeDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Sherif Abdul-KhaliqDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Shikur MussaDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed SleimanDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Tahir MongunoDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed Touimi Ben JellounDeep Cut85points
- Mohammed VI of MoroccoDeep 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.