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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
- Şengül KarslıDeep Cut85points
- Senida MesiDeep Cut85points
- Senteza RichardDeep Cut85points
- Sentot PrasetyoDeep Cut85points
- Senzo MchunuDeep Cut85points
- Seo Cheon-hoDeep Cut85points
- Seo Il-junDeep Cut85points
- Seo Ji-youngDeep Cut85points
- Seo Mi-hwaDeep Cut85points
- Seo Myeong-okDeep Cut85points
- Seo Sam-seokDeep Cut85points
- Seo WangjinDeep Cut85points
- Seo Young-kyoDeep Cut85points
- Seo Young-seokDeep Cut85points
- Seong Yoon LeeDeep Cut85points
- Sepp MüllerDeep Cut85points
- Sepp SchellhornDeep Cut85points
- Seppo EskelinenDeep Cut85points
- Sepura Siapai RichardDeep Cut85points
- Sera EvansDeep Cut85points
- Sera KadıgilDeep Cut85points
- Serafín Andrés LujánDeep Cut85points
- Serafín OrantesDeep Cut85points
- Seranee AnilbolDeep Cut85points
- Serap GülerDeep Cut85points
- Serbini AliDeep Cut85points
- Serdar BerdimuhamedowDeep Cut85points
- Serdar YükselDeep Cut85points
- Şeref ArpacıDeep Cut85points
- Serge BerardDeep Cut85points
- Serge CormierDeep Cut85points
- Serge Gabriel CollinDeep Cut85points
- Serge GelléDeep Cut85points
- Serge HiligsmannDeep Cut85points
- Serge MérillouDeep Cut85points
- Serge MullerDeep Cut85points
- Serge PapinDeep Cut85points
- Serge PodaDeep Cut85points
- Serge WilmesDeep Cut85points
- Sergei B. KorolevDeep Cut85points
- Sergei BidonkoDeep Cut85points
- Sergei GavrilovDeep Cut85points
- Sergei KabyshevDeep Cut85points
- Sergei KirienkoDeep Cut85points
- Sergei KlishevichDeep Cut85points
- Sergei KoshkinDeep Cut85points
- Sergei KostriichukDeep Cut85points
- Sergei KravtsovDeep Cut85points
- Sergei MironovDeep Cut85points
- Sergei NaryshkinDeep 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.