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
- Samuel VolpeDeep Cut85points
- Samuel ZbogarDeep Cut85points
- Samwel Moroto ChumelDeep Cut85points
- Sana bint Mohammed SuhailDeep Cut85points
- Sana Sathish BabuDeep Cut85points
- Sana Ullah Khan MastikhelDeep Cut85points
- Sanaa BarghashDeep Cut85points
- Sanaa El-SaidDeep Cut85points
- Sanae AbdiDeep Cut85points
- Sanatan PandeyDeep Cut85points
- Sandagiin ByambatsogtDeep Cut85points
- Sandaruwan MadarasingheDeep Cut85points
- Sandeep Kumar PathakDeep Cut85points
- Sandeep MehtaDeep Cut85points
- Sandeep RanaDeep Cut85points
- Sandhya RayDeep Cut85points
- Sandie Almeira BozaDeep Cut85points
- Sandip VermaDeep Cut85points
- Sándor BendeDeep Cut85points
- Sándor F. KovácsDeep Cut85points
- Sándor KovácsDeep Cut85points
- Sandosh Kumar PDeep Cut85points
- Sandra Ablamba JohnsonDeep Cut85points
- Sandra Anaya VillegasDeep Cut85points
- Sandra Arminda Rivero MaldonadoDeep Cut85points
- Sandra Beatriz González PérezDeep Cut85points
- Sandra BeckermanDeep Cut85points
- Sandra BenčićDeep Cut85points
- Sandra BergqvistDeep Cut85points
- Sandra BöhmwalderDeep Cut85points
- Sandra Bona MalualDeep Cut85points
- Sandra CarstensenDeep Cut85points
- Sandra ChindoyDeep Cut85points
- Sandra CobenaDeep Cut85points
- Sandra Codina TortDeep Cut85points
- Sandra ColemanDeep Cut85points
- Sandra DelannoyDeep Cut85points
- Sandra DetzerDeep Cut85points
- Sandra Elizabeth Figueroa AguilarDeep Cut85points
- Sandra FauschDeep Cut85points
- Sandra GazinkovskiDeep Cut85points
- Sandra Hinojosa NunezDeep Cut85points
- Sandra HusbandsDeep Cut85points
- Sandra InterianoDeep Cut85points
- Sandra JäckelDeep Cut85points
- Sandra JovelDeep Cut85points
- Sandra LassnigDeep Cut85points
- Sandra LazoDeep Cut85points
- Sandra LopesDeep Cut85points
- Sandra Mariela MendozaDeep 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.