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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
- Svilen TrifonovDeep Cut85points
- Swami Sachidanand Hari SakshiDeep Cut85points
- Swantje MichaelsenDeep Cut85points
- Swaran SinghDeep Cut85points
- Swarnim WagleDeep Cut85points
- Swati MaliwalDeep Cut85points
- Syahir SulaimanDeep Cut85points
- Syahredzan JohanDeep Cut85points
- Syamsul Ma'arifDeep Cut85points
- Syarhei AlyeinikDeep Cut85points
- Syarhey KavalchukDeep Cut85points
- Syarhey MaslyakDeep Cut85points
- Sydney ChisangaDeep Cut85points
- Sydney Kamlager-DoveDeep Cut85points
- Syed Abdul Kadir GillaniDeep Cut85points
- Syed Abdullah Mohammed TaherDeep Cut85points
- Syed Abrar Ali ShahDeep Cut85points
- Syed Abu Hussin Hafiz Syed Abdul FasalDeep Cut85points
- Syed Ahsan RazaDeep Cut85points
- Syed Ali Musa GilaniDeep Cut85points
- Syed Ali Qasim GillaniDeep Cut85points
- Syed Ali ZafarDeep Cut85points
- Syed Amin-ul-HaqueDeep Cut85points
- Syed Ayaz Ali Shah SheeraziDeep Cut85points
- Syed Faisal Ali SubzwariDeep Cut85points
- Syed Ghulam Mustafa ShahDeep Cut85points
- Syed HafeezuddinDeep Cut85points
- Syed Harun AlhabsyiDeep Cut85points
- Syed Hussain TariqDeep Cut85points
- Syed Ibrahim Syed NohDeep Cut85points
- Syed Imran Ahmad ShahDeep Cut85points
- Syed Jahangir AlamDeep Cut85points
- Syed Javed Ali Shah JillaniDeep Cut85points
- Syed Joynul AbedinDeep Cut85points
- Syed KamallDeep Cut85points
- Syed Kazim Ali ShahDeep Cut85points
- Syed Khursheed Ahmed ShahDeep Cut85points
- Syed Masroor AhsanDeep Cut85points
- Syed Md Hasrin Tengku HussinDeep Cut85points
- Syed Mohamad Bakri Syed Abdul RahmanDeep Cut85points
- Syed Murtaza MahmudDeep Cut85points
- Syed Mustafa KamalDeep Cut85points
- Syed Mustafa MehmoodDeep Cut85points
- Syed Naseer HussainDeep Cut85points
- Syed Naveed QamarDeep Cut85points
- Syed RafiullahDeep Cut85points
- Syed Raza Ali GillaniDeep Cut85points
- Syed SaddiqDeep Cut85points
- Syed Shah Ahad Ali ShahDeep Cut85points
- Syed Waqar MehdiDeep 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.