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
- Silvia BreherDeep Cut85points
- Silvia Candia EspejoDeep Cut85points
- Silvia CecchettiDeep Cut85points
- Silvia CristinaDeep Cut85points
- Silvia DoušováDeep Cut85points
- Silvia FregolentDeep Cut85points
- Silvia IbargurenDeep Cut85points
- Silvia Kumpan-TakacsDeep Cut85points
- Sílvia LutucutaDeep Cut85points
- Silvia Marlene Ardaya ArzeDeep Cut85points
- Silvia NaneDeep Cut85points
- Silvia Patricia Jiménez DelgadoDeep Cut85points
- Silvia Patricia Nuñez RamosDeep Cut85points
- Silvia RoggianiDeep Cut85points
- Silvia Suárez VázquezDeep Cut85points
- Silvio Costa FilhoDeep Cut85points
- Silvio ErkensDeep Cut85points
- Silvio FranceschelliDeep Cut85points
- Silvio GiovineDeep Cut85points
- Silvio OvelarDeep Cut85points
- Silvio SchembriDeep Cut85points
- Silviu FeodorDeep Cut85points
- Silviu OanceaDeep Cut85points
- Silviu VexlerDeep Cut85points
- Silviya HristovaDeep Cut85points
- Silvye AlvesDeep Cut85points
- Silwany SolomonDeep Cut85points
- Sim AnnDeep Cut85points
- Sim Tze TzinDeep Cut85points
- Sima AcanDeep Cut85points
- Simão Albino António DemboDeep Cut85points
- Simcha RothmanDeep Cut85points
- Sime PierreDeep Cut85points
- Simen VelleDeep Cut85points
- Simeon BrownDeep Cut85points
- Simeon IvanovDeep Cut85points
- Simeon Malachi AthyDeep Cut85points
- Simeón OyonoDeep Cut85points
- Simey Olvera BautistaDeep Cut85points
- Simil JohnsonDeep Cut85points
- Simita KumarDeep Cut85points
- Simneshi Sahlu TeumDeep Cut85points
- Simon Abi RamiaDeep Cut85points
- Simon Akibange AworigoDeep Cut85points
- Simon Ampaabeng KyeremehDeep Cut85points
- Simon Archangelo NgbidigiDeep Cut85points
- Simon CaseDeep Cut85points
- Simon CeulemansDeep Cut85points
- Simon CourtDeep Cut85points
- Simon DavidsonDeep 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.