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
- Rafael SimoesDeep Cut85points
- Rafael YamashiroDeep Cut85points
- Rafaela Crespín RubioDeep Cut85points
- Rafaela Romero PozoDeep Cut85points
- Rafaela Vianey García RomeroDeep Cut85points
- Rafał BochenekDeep Cut85points
- Rafał KasprzykDeep Cut85points
- Rafał KomarewiczDeep Cut85points
- Rafał RomanowskiDeep Cut85points
- Rafał SiemaszkoDeep Cut85points
- Rafał WeberDeep Cut85points
- Rafeek ShahDeep Cut85points
- Raff CicconeDeep Cut85points
- Raffaele BrunoDeep Cut85points
- Raffaele De RosaDeep Cut85points
- Raffaele NeviDeep Cut85points
- Raffaele SperanzonDeep Cut85points
- Raffaella PaitaDeep Cut85points
- Raffaella PetriniDeep Cut85points
- Raffi AhmadDeep Cut85points
- Raffy TulfoDeep Cut85points
- Rafia El MansouriDeep Cut85points
- Rafik GrigoryanDeep Cut85points
- Rafiq Ahmed JamaliDeep Cut85points
- Rafiqul Islam HilalyDeep Cut85points
- Rafiqul Islam JamalDeep Cut85points
- Rafiqul Islam KhanDeep Cut85points
- Rafis AlitiDeep Cut85points
- Rafizi RamliDeep Cut85points
- Raghav ChadhaDeep Cut85points
- Ragia Saad Abdel Hamid MohamedDeep Cut85points
- Ragna SigurðardóttirDeep Cut85points
- Ragnar JónssonDeep Cut85points
- Ragnar Þór IngólfssonDeep Cut85points
- Ragnhild BergheimDeep Cut85points
- Ragnhild NoerDeep Cut85points
- Ragnhild SyrstadDeep Cut85points
- Ragnhildur JónsdóttirDeep Cut85points
- Rahab MukamiDeep Cut85points
- Rahana Akter RanuDeep Cut85points
- RaharimampiononaDeep Cut85points
- Rahat JamaliDeep Cut85points
- Rahayu MahzamDeep Cut85points
- Rahbar AnsariDeep Cut85points
- Rahel Negero GutuDeep Cut85points
- Rahhou El HilaaDeep Cut85points
- Rahim Dawood AbdulDeep Cut85points
- Rahim KarimiDeep Cut85points
- Rahim ZareiDeep Cut85points
- Rahimjon SaidzodaDeep 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.