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
- Suryo UtomoDeep Cut85points
- Susan GardenDeep Cut85points
- Susan GreenfieldDeep Cut85points
- Susan KramerDeep Cut85points
- Susan LakotDeep Cut85points
- Susan MavangiraDeep Cut85points
- Susan McDonaldDeep Cut85points
- Susan MillerDeep Cut85points
- Susan MurrayDeep Cut85points
- Susan NgugiDeep Cut85points
- Susan Peter MacharDeep Cut85points
- Susan RodriguesDeep Cut85points
- Susan TemplemanDeep Cut85points
- Susan WilliamsDeep Cut85points
- Susana CamaránDeep Cut85points
- Susana Carola Campos ElioDeep Cut85points
- Susana CorreiaDeep Cut85points
- Susana Díaz PachecoDeep Cut85points
- Susana HarpDeep Cut85points
- Susana MatuteDeep Cut85points
- Susana Ros MartínezDeep Cut85points
- Susana Zatarain GarcíaDeep Cut85points
- Susanna CamussoDeep Cut85points
- Susanna CherchiDeep Cut85points
- Susanna Donatella CampioneDeep Cut85points
- Susannah GoshkoDeep Cut85points
- Susanne Fries-GaierDeep Cut85points
- Susanne FürstDeep Cut85points
- Susanne HierlDeep Cut85points
- Susanne PäivärintaDeep Cut85points
- Susanne Vincenz-StauffacherDeep Cut85points
- Susanne WahlströmDeep Cut85points
- Susantha DodawattaDeep Cut85points
- Susantha Kumara NawarathnaDeep Cut85points
- Susel Domínguez SerranoDeep Cut85points
- Susely Morfa GonzálezDeep Cut85points
- Sushant VaidikDeep Cut85points
- Sushil KhadkaDeep Cut85points
- Sushil Kumar KanuDeep Cut85points
- Sushila Dhakal (Acharya)Deep Cut85points
- Sushmita DevDeep Cut85points
- Susie JessenDeep Cut85points
- Susie LeeDeep Cut85points
- Susil RanasingheDeep Cut85points
- Susma Swranakar (Dimpal)Deep Cut85points
- Susumu YamaguchiDeep Cut85points
- Sutat MeesiriDeep Cut85points
- Sutheerapong WanchaitanawongDeep Cut85points
- Suthep KaengsanthiaDeep Cut85points
- Suthep SangwisetDeep 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.