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
- Angélica María Chorens FernándezDeep Cut85points
- Angélica Montes RenteríaDeep Cut85points
- Angelika BengtssonDeep Cut85points
- Angelika GlazkovaDeep Cut85points
- Angelika GlöcknerDeep Cut85points
- Angeliki DelikariDeep Cut85points
- Angelina JaffeDeep Cut85points
- Angelina Nyibol ThuochDeep Cut85points
- Angelina Samuel NyawuloDeep Cut85points
- Angelina TenyDeep Cut85points
- Angelinka PetkovaDeep Cut85points
- Angélique Da TeresaDeep Cut85points
- Angélique RancDeep Cut85points
- Angellah KairukiDeep Cut85points
- Angelo Beda GbangburaDeep Cut85points
- Angelo BonelliDeep Cut85points
- Angelo CoronelDeep Cut85points
- Angelo De DonatisDeep Cut85points
- Angelo IaconoDeep Cut85points
- Angelo James SelerinoDeep Cut85points
- Angelo Lokinga LotabaDeep Cut85points
- Angelo RossiDeep Cut85points
- Anggito AbimanyuDeep Cut85points
- Angie BellDeep Cut85points
- Angie BrayDeep Cut85points
- Angie CraigDeep Cut85points
- Angie MotshekgaDeep Cut85points
- Angiu Diing DiingDeep Cut85points
- Angkun KhlaikhluengDeep Cut85points
- Ango Sadiq AbdullahiDeep Cut85points
- Angomcha Bimol AkoijamDeep Cut85points
- Angsana NiamwanichkulDeep Cut85points
- Angura FredrickDeep Cut85points
- Angus MacDonaldDeep Cut85points
- Angus TaylorDeep Cut85points
- Angwech CollineDeep Cut85points
- Ani ZalinyanDeep Cut85points
- Ania Lastres MoreraDeep Cut85points
- Ania Yelina Fernández LaraDeep Cut85points
- Anibal Alberto ErhlerDeep Cut85points
- Aníbal MéndezDeep Cut85points
- Aníbal Ostoa OrtegaDeep Cut85points
- Aníbal PereyraDeep Cut85points
- Aníbal TortorielloDeep Cut85points
- Aniceto Javier Armas GonzálezDeep Cut85points
- Aniceto Polanco MoralesDeep Cut85points
- Aniekan BasseyDeep Cut85points
- Aniekwe Peter UdogalanyaDeep Cut85points
- Anifa BangiranaDeep Cut85points
- Anika WellsDeep 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.