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
- Nguyễn Tân CươngDeep Cut85points
- Nguyen Thanh HaiDeep Cut85points
- Nguyễn Thanh NghịDeep Cut85points
- Nguyễn Thế HiệpDeep Cut85points
- Nguyễn Trọng NghĩaDeep Cut85points
- Nguyễn Văn HùngDeep Cut85points
- Nguyễn Văn QuảngDeep Cut85points
- Nguyễn Văn ThắngDeep Cut85points
- Nhial Bol AkeenDeep Cut85points
- Nhial Deng NhialDeep Cut85points
- Nhlanhla GcwabazaDeep Cut85points
- Nhlanhla HadebeDeep Cut85points
- Ni HongDeep Cut85points
- Ni Luh DjelantikDeep Cut85points
- Nia GriffithDeep Cut85points
- Niall BlaneyDeep Cut85points
- Niall CollinsDeep Cut85points
- Niamh HylandDeep Cut85points
- Niamh SalkeldDeep Cut85points
- Niamh SmythDeep Cut85points
- Niaz AhmadDeep Cut85points
- Nibia ReischDeep Cut85points
- Nic DakinDeep Cut85points
- Nicanor Gonzalo Cochi CondoríDeep Cut85points
- Nicéphore Fylla de Saint-EudesDeep Cut85points
- Nichapha SuwannakDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas AmankwahDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas HamblenDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas KasirerDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas KentDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas MacphersonDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas MathonsiDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas MerrickDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas MutuDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas MyburghDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas Ngikor Nixon NgikolongDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas PapadopoulosDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas PhillipsDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas Scott Tindi MwaleDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas SoamesDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas SternDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas Thadeus KamaraDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas TrenchDeep Cut85points
- Nicholas TrueDeep Cut85points
- Nick AdamsDeep Cut85points
- Nick Begich IIIDeep Cut85points
- Nick BourneDeep Cut85points
- Nick CarterDeep Cut85points
- Nick ForbesDeep Cut85points
- Nick HerbertDeep 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.