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
- T Khun MyatDeep Cut85points
- T R BaaluDeep Cut85points
- T Sumathy Alias Thamizhachi ThangapandianDeep Cut85points
- T. B. SarathDeep Cut85points
- T. V. SomanathanDeep Cut85points
- T.K. JayasundaraDeep Cut85points
- Taabeta TeakaiDeep Cut85points
- Taalai BazarbaevDeep Cut85points
- Taalaybek IbraevDeep Cut85points
- Taban Aate SharifahDeep Cut85points
- Taban John Nyaruben KorongDeep Cut85points
- Taban Luka GuyaDeep Cut85points
- Tabaré VieraDeep Cut85points
- Tabata AmaralDeep Cut85points
- Tabitha Chol ManyielDeep Cut85points
- Tabitha KaranjaDeep Cut85points
- Tabitha Nyanchin KwojoDeep Cut85points
- Tabitha Sarabo-HalleyDeep Cut85points
- Taboi Awi YotoDeep Cut85points
- Tabouli CelestinDeep Cut85points
- Tabu IrinaDeep Cut85points
- Tacciana LaurynovichDeep Cut85points
- Tadahiko ItoDeep Cut85points
- Tadamori FujisawaDeep Cut85points
- Tadao ShimizuDeep Cut85points
- Tadas BarauskasDeep Cut85points
- Tadas PrajaraDeep Cut85points
- Tadas SadauskisDeep Cut85points
- Tadatomo YoshidaDeep Cut85points
- Tadej OstrcDeep Cut85points
- Tadele Buraka BushashaDeep Cut85points
- Tadeous Tafirenyika ChifambaDeep Cut85points
- Tadesse Beza GebretsadikDeep Cut85points
- Tadesse Getu AlemuDeep Cut85points
- Tadeu VeneriDeep Cut85points
- Tadeusz ChrzanDeep Cut85points
- Tadeusz SamborskiDeep Cut85points
- Tadeusz TomaszewskiDeep Cut85points
- Tadeusz WoźniakDeep Cut85points
- Tadevos AvetisyanDeep Cut85points
- Tafesse Muleta TessoDeep Cut85points
- Tage PettersenDeep Cut85points
- Tagesse ChafoDeep Cut85points
- Taghreed HikmatDeep Cut85points
- Taguhi GhazaryanDeep Cut85points
- Taguhi TovmasyanDeep Cut85points
- Taha DerbalDeep Cut85points
- Taha NajiDeep Cut85points
- Tahar BimezzaghDeep Cut85points
- Tahar HadjarDeep 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.