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
- Odiongo Icha JoyceDeep Cut85points
- Odo TeviDeep Cut85points
- Odón Colmenero y SaaDeep Cut85points
- Ödön SzabóDeep Cut85points
- Odongiin TsogtgerelDeep Cut85points
- Odsürengiin NominchimegDeep Cut85points
- Odudoh Uduak AlphonsusDeep Cut85points
- Odwori JohnDeep Cut85points
- Odysseas KonstantinopoulosDeep Cut85points
- Odysseas MichaelidesDeep Cut85points
- Oerd BylykbashiDeep Cut85points
- Ofelia Alejandra Zurita MedranoDeep Cut85points
- Ofelia Socorro Jasso NietoDeep Cut85points
- Ofer CassifDeep Cut85points
- Ofer GrosskopfDeep Cut85points
- Ofir KatzDeep Cut85points
- Ofir SoferDeep Cut85points
- Ofwono Opondo P’odelDeep Cut85points
- Ogah Chinedu NwekeDeep Cut85points
- Ogerta ManastirliuDeep Cut85points
- Ogetho Cham OdelDeep Cut85points
- Ognean CrîsticiDeep Cut85points
- Ogwal Joseph JonesDeep Cut85points
- Ogwang Patrick OburaDeep Cut85points
- Ogwang PeterDeep Cut85points
- Oh Gi-hyoungDeep Cut85points
- Oh Kyung-miDeep Cut85points
- Oh Se-heeDeep Cut85points
- Ohad TalDeep Cut85points
- Ohene Kwame FrimpongDeep Cut85points
- Ohidei Victor OmuhoDeep Cut85points
- Ohoud Al RoumiDeep Cut85points
- Ojaswee SherchandDeep Cut85points
- Ojiit PeterDeep Cut85points
- Ojok Andrew OulanyahDeep Cut85points
- Ojotu OjemaDeep Cut85points
- Ojuawo Rufus AdeniyiDeep Cut85points
- Okaasai Sidronius OpolotDeep Cut85points
- Okan KonuralpDeep Cut85points
- Okeke Jonas OnwuegbuchulamDeep Cut85points
- Okello Geoffrey CharlesDeep Cut85points
- Okello Laweri OdongDeep Cut85points
- Okello Patrick OngutiDeep Cut85points
- Oketcho GeorgeDeep Cut85points
- Oketcho John FrancisDeep Cut85points
- Okeyoh PeterDeep Cut85points
- Okia Joanne AnikuDeep Cut85points
- Okiding SamDeep Cut85points
- Okojie OdianosenDeep Cut85points
- Okon Ime BasseyDeep 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.