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
- Reynaldo CarballoDeep Cut85points
- Reynaldo CardozaDeep Cut85points
- Reynaldo Sanchez HilarioDeep Cut85points
- Reza AhammedDeep Cut85points
- Reza AlizadehDeep Cut85points
- Reza AmeriDeep Cut85points
- Reza HajipourDeep Cut85points
- Reza KibriaDeep Cut85points
- Reza NazarahariDeep Cut85points
- Reza Salehi AmiriDeep Cut85points
- Reza SeddiqiDeep Cut85points
- Reza SepahvandDeep Cut85points
- Reza Taghipour AnvariDeep Cut85points
- Reza ZabibDeep Cut85points
- Rezaul Karim BadshaDeep Cut85points
- Rezeka SultanaDeep Cut85points
- Rəşad MahmudovDeep Cut85points
- Rhéal Éloi FortinDeep Cut85points
- Rhee ChangyongDeep Cut85points
- Rhiannon LeamanDeep Cut85points
- Rhimo NyansahoDeep Cut85points
- Rhissa Ag BoulaDeep Cut85points
- Rhoda Moy CrawfordDeep Cut85points
- Rhona FetzerDeep Cut85points
- Rhonda KirklandDeep Cut85points
- Rhun ap IorwerthDeep Cut85points
- Ri Chol-sanDeep Cut85points
- Ri Kang-sonDeep Cut85points
- Ri Son-gwonDeep Cut85points
- Ri Song-hakDeep Cut85points
- Ri Thae-sopDeep Cut85points
- Ri Tu IlDeep Cut85points
- Ri Yong-gilDeep Cut85points
- RiaaDeep Cut85points
- Riadh ChaoudDeep Cut85points
- Riana Nantenaina RandrianomenjanaharyDeep Cut85points
- Rianne LetschertDeep Cut85points
- Riaz RupnarainDeep Cut85points
- Riaz Ul HaqDeep Cut85points
- Ribamar SilvaDeep Cut85points
- Ribanataake TiwauDeep Cut85points
- Ribaz HamlanDeep Cut85points
- Ricarda BergerDeep Cut85points
- Ricarda LangDeep Cut85points
- Ričardas JuškaDeep Cut85points
- Ricardina Inocência dos Santos ChilomboDeep Cut85points
- Ricardo AbrãoDeep Cut85points
- Ricardo AiresDeep Cut85points
- Ricardo Anaya CortésDeep Cut85points
- Ricardo Armando Patiño ArocaDeep 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.