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
- Ritva ElomaaDeep Cut85points
- Riyas FarookDeep Cut85points
- Rizik Zackaria HassanDeep Cut85points
- Riziki ShemdoeDeep Cut85points
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- Rizq SalimiyaDeep Cut85points
- Rizvan NabiyevDeep Cut85points
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- Rizvie SalihDeep Cut85points
- Rizwan Saeed SheikhDeep Cut85points
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- Rob BeendersDeep Cut85points
- Rob BresnahanDeep Cut85points
- Rob HolmanDeep Cut85points
- Rob JettenDeep Cut85points
- Rob MenendezDeep Cut85points
- Rob MitchellDeep Cut85points
- Rob MooreDeep Cut85points
- Rob MorrisonDeep Cut85points
- Rob TinlineDeep Cut85points
- Rob WittmanDeep Cut85points
- Robbert LievenseDeep Cut85points
- Robbie ButlerDeep Cut85points
- Robbie Douglas-MillerDeep Cut85points
- Robbie GallagherDeep Cut85points
- Robbie MooreDeep Cut85points
- Rober Alexander Bautista BautistaDeep Cut85points
- Robério MonteiroDeep Cut85points
- Robert AbelaDeep Cut85points
- Robert AderholtDeep Cut85points
- Robert AlecuDeep Cut85points
- Robert Andersson HammarstrandDeep Cut85points
- Robert AtiyafaDeep Cut85points
- Róbert Balázs SimonDeep Cut85points
- Robert BalchinDeep Cut85points
- Robert Basil NguiDeep Cut85points
- Robert Beech-JonesDeep Cut85points
- Robert Beugré MambéDeep Cut85points
- Robert BitriDeep Cut85points
- Robert BlackDeep Cut85points
- Robert Bol PeterDeep Cut85points
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- Robert CrollDeep Cut85points
- Robert DölgerDeep Cut85points
- Robert DowhanDeep Cut85points
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- Robert Gichimu GithinjiDeep Cut85points
- Robert GolobDeep Cut85points
- Robert GontarzDeep Cut85points
- Robert HaywardDeep 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.