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
- Sofie LippertDeep Cut85points
- Sofie MarhaugDeep Cut85points
- Sofie MerckxDeep Cut85points
- Sofie Therese SvendsenDeep Cut85points
- Sofien BessadokDeep Cut85points
- Sofiene HemissiDeep Cut85points
- Sohail SultanDeep Cut85points
- Sōhei KamiyaDeep Cut85points
- Sohei NihiDeep Cut85points
- Soheir al-QadyDeep Cut85points
- Soheir KoriemDeep Cut85points
- Soichiro ImaedaDeep Cut85points
- Sojan JosephDeep Cut85points
- Sok Chenda SopheaDeep Cut85points
- Sok SokenDeep Cut85points
- Sokratis FamellosDeep Cut85points
- Sokratis VardakisDeep Cut85points
- Sol ManeiroDeep Cut85points
- Solan MirisimDeep Cut85points
- Solange UwituzeDeep Cut85points
- Solanges NadilleDeep Cut85points
- Sólbjørg JakobsenDeep Cut85points
- Soledad MolinuevoDeep Cut85points
- Soledad MondacaDeep Cut85points
- Soleha KholmahmadzodaDeep Cut85points
- Solen LoifaDeep Cut85points
- Solly MalatsiDeep Cut85points
- Solofo AndrianjafimahatratraDeep Cut85points
- Solomiia BobrovskaDeep Cut85points
- Solomon Kuchu RobiDeep Cut85points
- Solomon KuyonDeep Cut85points
- Solomon Olamilekan AdeolaDeep Cut85points
- Solomon Soka GinyaritaDeep Cut85points
- Solomon WomboDeep Cut85points
- Solomone Lale KaloDeep Cut85points
- Soltan MammadovDeep Cut85points
- Solveig VestenforDeep Cut85points
- Solveig VitanzaDeep Cut85points
- Som SharmaDeep Cut85points
- Somayeh RafieiDeep Cut85points
- Sombat YasinDeep Cut85points
- Somboon NuannualDeep Cut85points
- Somchai LenglakDeep Cut85points
- Somchai NumphunDeep Cut85points
- Somchart TechathavorncharoenDeep Cut85points
- Somchat PraditpornDeep Cut85points
- Somchid KanthayaDeep Cut85points
- Somdun BoonchaiDeep Cut85points
- Somer Enrique Rivas RodríguezDeep Cut85points
- Somers FarkasDeep 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.