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
- Sónia Margarida FernandesDeep Cut85points
- Sónia MonteiroDeep Cut85points
- Sonia ParagDeep Cut85points
- Sonia Rincón ChanonaDeep Cut85points
- Sonia Salah IdrisDeep Cut85points
- Sonia SidhuDeep Cut85points
- Sonia Sinani CallisayaDeep Cut85points
- Soniboj KnežakDeep Cut85points
- Sonja EichwedeDeep Cut85points
- Sonja LemkeDeep Cut85points
- Sonja MihailovskaDeep Cut85points
- Sonja MilatovićDeep Cut85points
- Sonja MirakovskaDeep Cut85points
- Sönke SiemonDeep Cut85points
- Sonny AngaraDeep Cut85points
- Sonny LagonDeep Cut85points
- Sonny LeongDeep Cut85points
- Sonto MotaungDeep Cut85points
- Sony Mayerlín Sánchez GuerreroDeep Cut85points
- Sophia ChikirouDeep Cut85points
- Sophia ChoteDeep Cut85points
- Sophia FedynaDeep Cut85points
- Sophia Granswed BaatDeep Cut85points
- Sophia Rosetta Bernasko EssahDeep Cut85points
- Sophia ShaningwaDeep Cut85points
- Sophia Tesfamariam YohannesDeep Cut85points
- Sophie AubertDeep Cut85points
- Sophie BlancDeep Cut85points
- Sophie Briante GuillemontDeep Cut85points
- Sophie ChatelDeep Cut85points
- Sophie De SmedtDeep Cut85points
- Sophie De WitDeep Cut85points
- Sophie ErranteDeep Cut85points
- Sophie Hæstorp AndersenDeep Cut85points
- Sophie HermansDeep Cut85points
- Sophie JelleyDeep Cut85points
- Sophie KochDeep Cut85points
- Sophie LøhdeDeep Cut85points
- Sophie MetteDeep Cut85points
- Sophie Michaud GigonDeep Cut85points
- Sophie PanonacleDeep Cut85points
- Sophie PantelDeep Cut85points
- Sophie PrimasDeep Cut85points
- Sophie Ricourt VaginayDeep Cut85points
- Sophie ScampsDeep Cut85points
- Sophie Soamiadana RatsirakaDeep Cut85points
- Sophie Taillé-PolianDeep Cut85points
- Sophie ThembekwayoDeep Cut85points
- Sophie ThémontDeep Cut85points
- Sophie WotschkeDeep 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.