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
- Siraj-Eddin Ali HamidDeep Cut85points
- Sirajuddin HaqqaniDeep Cut85points
- Sirapob SompholDeep Cut85points
- Siren Julianne JensenDeep Cut85points
- Sirikanya TansakunDeep Cut85points
- Siripong AngkasakulkiatDeep Cut85points
- Sirirot ThanikkunDeep Cut85points
- Siriwan PrasjaksattruDeep Cut85points
- Siriwat KajornprasartDeep Cut85points
- Sirjana ShresthaDeep Cut85points
- Sirleaf Ralph TylerDeep Cut85points
- Sirodjidin AslovDeep Cut85points
- Siromi TuragaDeep Cut85points
- Sirote PhaetphanDeep Cut85points
- Sisak GabrielyanDeep Cut85points
- Sisipho JamaDeep Cut85points
- Sissel Kruse LarsenDeep Cut85points
- Sisto MajikweDeep Cut85points
- Siswo PramonoDeep Cut85points
- Sita BadiDeep Cut85points
- Sita ThapaliyaDeep Cut85points
- Sitaram SahDeep Cut85points
- Siteny RandrianasoloniaikoDeep Cut85points
- Sithembile NkosiDeep Cut85points
- Siti Aminah AchingDeep Cut85points
- Siti Mastura MohamadDeep Cut85points
- Siti Redwan BizaDeep Cut85points
- Siti Zailah Mohd YusoffDeep Cut85points
- Sitiveni RabukaDeep Cut85points
- Sitthichot IntarawisetDeep Cut85points
- Sitthikorn ThongyotDeep Cut85points
- Sittiphat PhawasutDeep Cut85points
- Sittiphol ViboonthanakulDeep Cut85points
- Situmbeko MusokotwaneDeep Cut85points
- Sivagnanam ShritharanDeep Cut85points
- Siviwe GwarubeDeep Cut85points
- Siwa PhongtheeradulDeep Cut85points
- Sixolisa GcilisheDeep Cut85points
- Siyabonga GamaDeep Cut85points
- Siyabonga MkhizeDeep Cut85points
- Siyavush NovruzovDeep Cut85points
- Sizwe MlotshwaDeep Cut85points
- Sırrı SakıkDeep Cut85points
- Sjafrie SjamsoeddinDeep Cut85points
- Sjoerd SjoerdsmaDeep Cut85points
- Sjoukje van OosterhoutDeep Cut85points
- Sjúrður SkaaleDeep Cut85points
- SK Azizul BareeDeep Cut85points
- Sk Farid AhmedDeep Cut85points
- Sk. Md. Rejaul IslamDeep 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.