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
- Simona MalpezziDeep Cut85points
- Simona MohamssonDeep Cut85points
- Simona PetríkDeep Cut85points
- Simona PetrucciDeep Cut85points
- Simona SpătaruDeep Cut85points
- Simona VelevaDeep Cut85points
- Simonas GentvilasDeep Cut85points
- Simonas KairysDeep Cut85points
- Simone BeisselDeep Cut85points
- Simone BilliDeep Cut85points
- Simone BorchardtDeep Cut85points
- Simone de MontmollinDeep Cut85points
- Simone FinnDeep Cut85points
- Simone FischerDeep Cut85points
- Simone GianiniDeep Cut85points
- Simone JaglDeep Cut85points
- Simone MarquettoDeep Cut85points
- Simone OldenburgDeep Cut85points
- Simonetta MatoneDeep Cut85points
- Simonida KordićDeep Cut85points
- Simos KedikoglouDeep Cut85points
- Simos KoupeloglouDeep Cut85points
- Simplex Chithyola BandaDeep Cut85points
- Sinan ÇiftyürekDeep Cut85points
- Sinawo ThamboDeep Cut85points
- Sindiswa MasumpaDeep Cut85points
- Sindre LysøDeep Cut85points
- Sindy Karina Donaire OropezaDeep Cut85points
- Sinéad EnnisDeep Cut85points
- Sinéad GibneyDeep Cut85points
- Sinéad McLaughlinDeep Cut85points
- Sinem Dybvad DemirDeep Cut85points
- Siniša Hajdaš DončićDeep Cut85points
- Siniša MaliDeep Cut85points
- Sinisha StojanoskiDeep Cut85points
- Sinknesh EjiguDeep Cut85points
- Sintayehu Tilahun AbebeDeep Cut85points
- Sintayehu Woldemichael YohannesDeep Cut85points
- Sinthop KaewpijitDeep Cut85points
- Sinuhe WallinheimoDeep Cut85points
- Siobhain McDonaghDeep Cut85points
- Siobhian BrownDeep Cut85points
- Sione Ngongo KioaDeep Cut85points
- Sione Siale FoheDeep Cut85points
- Sioned WilliamsDeep Cut85points
- Siphetho MkhizeDeep Cut85points
- Sipho MahlanguDeep Cut85points
- Sipho MbathaDeep Cut85points
- Siphosethu NgcoboDeep Cut85points
- Sira RegoDeep 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.