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
- Petr FialaDeep Cut85points
- Petr HladíkDeep Cut85points
- Petr KowandaDeep Cut85points
- Petr MacinkaDeep Cut85points
- Petr PavelDeep Cut85points
- Petr SadovskýDeep Cut85points
- Petr SokolDeep Cut85points
- Petr ŠukDeep Cut85points
- Petr VránaDeep Cut85points
- Petra BayrDeep Cut85points
- Petra Bezjak CirmanDeep Cut85points
- Petra GössiDeep Cut85points
- Petra Judit KovácsDeep Cut85points
- Petra KöppingDeep Cut85points
- Petra OberraunerDeep Cut85points
- Petra OlschowskiDeep Cut85points
- Petra Romero GomezDeep Cut85points
- Petra SchneebauerDeep Cut85points
- Petra SigmundDeep Cut85points
- Petra TanzlerDeep Cut85points
- Petra Yaritza Aray CascanteDeep Cut85points
- Petras DargisDeep Cut85points
- Petre PușcașuDeep Cut85points
- Petre-Emanoil NeaguDeep Cut85points
- Petri HonkonenDeep Cut85points
- Petri HuruDeep Cut85points
- Petrișor PeiuDeep Cut85points
- Petrit MalajDeep Cut85points
- Petro PavlovskyiDeep Cut85points
- Petro StetsiukDeep Cut85points
- Petro YurchyshynDeep Cut85points
- Petros DimitriadisDeep Cut85points
- Petros HailemariamDeep Cut85points
- Petros PappasDeep Cut85points
- Petru FaragoDeep Cut85points
- Petru FrunzeDeep Cut85points
- Petru-Gabriel NegreaDeep Cut85points
- Petter AspDeep Cut85points
- Petter LöbergDeep Cut85points
- Petteri OrpoDeep Cut85points
- Petur PetrovDeep Cut85points
- Pety RakotoniainaDeep Cut85points
- Peya MushelengaDeep Cut85points
- Peyman FalsafiDeep Cut85points
- Peyman SaadatDeep Cut85points
- Pərvin KərimzadəDeep Cut85points
- Phachara ChanruangthongDeep Cut85points
- Phacharakon AnnopphonDeep Cut85points
- Phachon AnantasilpDeep Cut85points
- Phadermchai SasomsubDeep 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.