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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
- Shi TaifengDeep Cut85points
- Shieh Ming-yanDeep Cut85points
- Shifa SwanehDeep Cut85points
- Shifera Telila SenbetuDeep Cut85points
- Shigefumi MatsuzawaDeep Cut85points
- Shigeharu AoyamaDeep Cut85points
- Shigeki KobayashiDeep Cut85points
- Shigenori KenzakaDeep Cut85points
- Shigeyuki GotoDeep Cut85points
- Shih Chung-liangDeep Cut85points
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- Shimane KelaotsweDeep Cut85points
- Shimpei MatsushitaDeep Cut85points
- Shin Dong-wookDeep Cut85points
- Shin Jang-sikDeep Cut85points
- Shin Jeong-hoonDeep Cut85points
- Shin Seong-beomDeep Cut85points
- Shin TsuchidaDeep Cut85points
- Shin YamamotoDeep Cut85points
- Shin Yeong-daeDeep Cut85points
- Shin'ichi YokoyamaDeep Cut85points
- Shina AnsariDeep Cut85points
- Shinako TsuchiyaDeep Cut85points
- Shinebayaryn ByambasürenDeep Cut85points
- Shingo MiyakeDeep Cut85points
- Shinichi IsaDeep Cut85points
- Shinichi NakataniDeep Cut85points
- Shinichi SaidaDeep Cut85points
- Shinichi ShibaDeep Cut85points
- Shinichiro KawamatsuDeep Cut85points
- Shinji InoueDeep Cut85points
- Shinji MorimotoDeep Cut85points
- Shinji NagatomoDeep Cut85points
- Shinji TakeuchiDeep Cut85points
- Shinji WakayamaDeep Cut85points
- Shinji YoshidaDeep Cut85points
- Shinjirō KoizumiDeep Cut85points
- Shinsuke ShimizuDeep Cut85points
- Shinsuke SuematsuDeep Cut85points
- Shintaro ItoDeep Cut85points
- Shintarō WatanabeDeep Cut85points
- Shinya FujikiDeep Cut85points
- Shireen HassaneinDeep Cut85points
- Shirley CastañedaDeep Cut85points
- Shirley KyeiDeep Cut85points
- Shirley RiveraDeep Cut85points
- Shirley Vargas PacoDeep Cut85points
- Shirley-Anne SomervilleDeep Cut85points
- Shisema Gebresilassie WerangaDeep Cut85points
- Shishir KhanalDeep 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.