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
- Rosa Tatiana Áñez CarrascoDeep Cut85points
- Rosabel Gamón VerdeDeep Cut85points
- Rosalba Quiala MenéndezDeep Cut85points
- Rosalia León RosasDeep Cut85points
- Rosalie MatondoDeep Cut85points
- Rosalind ScottDeep Cut85points
- Rosalinda Savala DíazDeep Cut85points
- Rosan RoeslaniDeep Cut85points
- Rosana ValleDeep Cut85points
- Rosangela GomesDeep Cut85points
- Rosangela MoroDeep Cut85points
- Rosângela ReisDeep Cut85points
- Rosangella BarbaránDeep Cut85points
- Rosanna CostaDeep Cut85points
- Rosanna FilippinDeep Cut85points
- Rosaria TassinariDeep Cut85points
- Rosario Daniela Anagua PovedaDeep Cut85points
- Rosario del Carmen Moreno VillatoroDeep Cut85points
- Rosario GoitiaDeep Cut85points
- Rosario MurilloDeep Cut85points
- Rosario PalleiroDeep Cut85points
- Rosario Pompa FigueredoDeep Cut85points
- Rosaura PeralesDeep Cut85points
- Rosaura Ruiz GutiérrezDeep Cut85points
- Rose Adau DengDeep Cut85points
- Rose Conway-WalshDeep Cut85points
- Rose MuseoDeep Cut85points
- Rose NakanagaDeep Cut85points
- Rose-Marie CarlssonDeep Cut85points
- Rose-May PoirierDeep Cut85points
- Roseli Bin AbdulDeep Cut85points
- Roselia Suárez Montes de OcaDeep Cut85points
- Roselinda Soipan TuyaDeep Cut85points
- Roseline Samuel AbujohnDeep Cut85points
- Roselyn Josefina Vegas SánchezDeep Cut85points
- Roselys María Salazar SifontesDeep Cut85points
- Rosemarie FalkDeep Cut85points
- Rosemary CapaDeep Cut85points
- Rosemary MoodieDeep Cut85points
- Rosen ZhelyazkovDeep Cut85points
- Rosena Allin-KhanDeep Cut85points
- Roser Suñé PascuetDeep Cut85points
- Roshan AkmeemanaDeep Cut85points
- Roshni MecheDeep Cut85points
- Rosianne CutajarDeep Cut85points
- Rosie BoycottDeep Cut85points
- Rosie DuffieldDeep Cut85points
- Rosie WintertonDeep Cut85points
- Rosie WrightingDeep Cut85points
- Rosilema Rodríguez SánchezDeep 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.