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
- Piotr AdamowiczDeep Cut85points
- Piotr BabinetzDeep Cut85points
- Piotr BorysDeep Cut85points
- Piotr GlińskiDeep Cut85points
- Piotr GłowskiDeep Cut85points
- Piotr GórnikiewiczDeep Cut85points
- Piotr KaletaDeep Cut85points
- Piotr KandybaDeep Cut85points
- Piotr KowalDeep Cut85points
- Piotr KrólDeep Cut85points
- Piotr LachowiczDeep Cut85points
- Piotr ŁukasiewiczDeep Cut85points
- Piotr OtawskiDeep Cut85points
- Piotr PolakDeep Cut85points
- Piotr StrachDeep Cut85points
- Piotr UruskiDeep Cut85points
- Piotr UścińskiDeep Cut85points
- Piotr ZgorzelskiDeep Cut85points
- Pious Kwame NkuahDeep Cut85points
- Pipi-Liis SiemannDeep Cut85points
- Pippa HeylingsDeep Cut85points
- Pir Aftab Hussain Shah JilaniDeep Cut85points
- Pir Ameer Ali Shah JeelaniDeep Cut85points
- Pir Syed Fazal Ali Shah JillaniDeep Cut85points
- Piret HartmanDeep Cut85points
- Piritta RantanenDeep Cut85points
- Pirmin BischofDeep Cut85points
- Pirmin SchwanderDeep Cut85points
- Pirongrong RamasootaDeep Cut85points
- Piroska SzalaiDeep Cut85points
- Pirro VenguDeep Cut85points
- Pisut SubvijittraDeep Cut85points
- Pitakdet DetdachoDeep Cut85points
- Pitcharat LaohapongchanaDeep Cut85points
- Piti PitutechaDeep Cut85points
- Pitikan SitthidetDeep Cut85points
- Pitikorn BannaphesatDeep Cut85points
- Pitra NetoDeep Cut85points
- Pitso LesaoanaDeep Cut85points
- Pius KaufmannDeep Cut85points
- Pius MokgwareDeep Cut85points
- Piyanuch YindeesukDeep Cut85points
- Piyanut WutthisonDeep Cut85points
- Piyaphat SuphawanDeep Cut85points
- Piyapong JiwattanakulpaisarnDeep Cut85points
- Piyarat ChongthepDeep Cut85points
- Piyarat TiyapairatDeep Cut85points
- Piyasiri WatthanawongkoolDeep Cut85points
- Piyawat KittithanetDeep Cut85points
- Piyush GoyalDeep 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.