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
- Pascal Nguihe KanteDeep Cut85points
- Pascal ReddigDeep Cut85points
- Pascal SavoldelliDeep Cut85points
- Pascal SchmidDeep Cut85points
- Pascale BaeriswylDeep Cut85points
- Pascale GotDeep Cut85points
- Pascallina Philip WadenDeep Cut85points
- Paschal Constantine DegeraDeep Cut85points
- Pascual Navarro RíosDeep Cut85points
- Pascual Ondo Nse OyanaDeep Cut85points
- Pasha UnguDeep Cut85points
- Pashukeni ShoombeDeep Cut85points
- Pasión Gádor Romero GarcíaDeep Cut85points
- Paska Menya AciroDeep Cut85points
- Pasqua L'abbateDeep Cut85points
- Pasquale D'AscolaDeep Cut85points
- Pasqualino PenzaDeep Cut85points
- Pastor Alberto VeraDeep Cut85points
- Pastor DinizDeep Cut85points
- Pastor EuricoDeep Cut85points
- Pastor GilDeep Cut85points
- Pastor Henrique VieiraDeep Cut85points
- Pastor Sargento IsidórioDeep Cut85points
- Pat BuckleyDeep Cut85points
- Pat CaseyDeep Cut85points
- Pat ConaghanDeep Cut85points
- Pat ConroyDeep Cut85points
- Pat CullenDeep Cut85points
- Pat DuncanDeep Cut85points
- Pat FallonDeep Cut85points
- Pat HarriganDeep Cut85points
- Pat KellyDeep Cut85points
- Pat Lebenya-NtanziDeep Cut85points
- Pat McFaddenDeep Cut85points
- Pat RyanDeep Cut85points
- Pat SheehanDeep Cut85points
- Pat the Cope GallagherDeep Cut85points
- Patalet GeoDeep Cut85points
- Patalet Kanabe MarcelinDeep Cut85points
- Patel Umeshbhai BabubhaiDeep Cut85points
- Pathmanathan SathiyalingamDeep Cut85points
- Patida TantirattananonDeep Cut85points
- Patience WheatcroftDeep Cut85points
- Patima JeerapaetDeep Cut85points
- Patrice CellarioDeep Cut85points
- Patrice JolyDeep Cut85points
- Patrice MartinDeep Cut85points
- Patrice RakotoarimananaDeep Cut85points
- Patricia Adeline LamaDeep Cut85points
- Patrícia AlmeidaDeep 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.