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
- Amra RamDeep Cut85points
- Amran SulaimanDeep Cut85points
- Amrane Aït-HamoudaDeep Cut85points
- Amresh Kumar SinghDeep Cut85points
- Amrinder Singh Raja WarringDeep Cut85points
- Amrita B.K.Deep Cut85points
- Amritpal SinghDeep Cut85points
- Amsal Amare AbateDeep Cut85points
- Amsal Mengistu AlemuDeep Cut85points
- Amthal Al-HuwailahDeep Cut85points
- Amule Michael Simon LasuDeep Cut85points
- Amule Samson MacheteDeep Cut85points
- Amy BarklamDeep Cut85points
- Amy Lazaro-JavierDeep Cut85points
- Amyas MorseDeep Cut85points
- An CapoenDeep Cut85points
- An Ho-youngDeep Cut85points
- Ana A. EscrogimaDeep Cut85points
- Ana António Maria JoséDeep Cut85points
- Ana Belén Terán LamánDeep Cut85points
- Ana Belén Vázquez BlancoDeep Cut85points
- Ana Belén Yela DuarteDeep Cut85points
- Ana BernardoDeep Cut85points
- Ana BrnabićDeep Cut85points
- Ana CaliniciDeep Cut85points
- Ana Catarina PeixotoDeep Cut85points
- Ana Cecilia Herrera GómezDeep Cut85points
- Ana Chiquete ElizaldeDeep Cut85points
- Ana Correia da VeigaDeep Cut85points
- Ana Cristina Guim AlfagoDeep Cut85points
- Ana da Purificação Lara de Abreu Pires DelgadoDeep Cut85points
- Ana Elena Pinto LizanoDeep Cut85points
- Ana Elizabeth Ayala LeyvaDeep Cut85points
- Ana ErazoDeep Cut85points
- Ana Erika Santana GonzálezDeep Cut85points
- Ana FigueroaDeep Cut85points
- Ana Gabriela CabilhasDeep Cut85points
- Ana Inés MarksDeep Cut85points
- Ana Isabel Alós LópezDeep Cut85points
- Ana Isabel FerreiraDeep Cut85points
- Ana Isabel González GonzálezDeep Cut85points
- Ana Isabel Marques XavierDeep Cut85points
- Ana Karen Hernández AcevesDeep Cut85points
- Ana Karina Rojo PimentelDeep Cut85points
- Ana Karina Velasco AñezDeep Cut85points
- Ana Laura MeloDeep Cut85points
- Ana Ligia Mora MartínezDeep Cut85points
- Ana Luisa del Muro GarcíaDeep Cut85points
- Ana Luísa MachadoDeep Cut85points
- Ana Luisa Yufra LugoDeep 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.