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
- Tomomi OtsujiDeep Cut85points
- Tomonobu MurakamiDeep Cut85points
- Tonci GlavinaDeep Cut85points
- Tonći JanovićDeep Cut85points
- Tone KajzerDeep Cut85points
- Tone Wilhelmsen TrøenDeep Cut85points
- Tongun Lado RombekDeep Cut85points
- Toni BezzinaDeep Cut85points
- Toni JarevskiDeep Cut85points
- Toni MooreDeep Cut85points
- Toni RicciardiDeep Cut85points
- Toni VaroneDeep Cut85points
- Tonia AntoniazziDeep Cut85points
- Tonia AntoniouDeep Cut85points
- Tonika Sealy-ThompsonDeep Cut85points
- Toninho WandscheerDeep Cut85points
- Tõnis LukasDeep Cut85points
- Tõnis MölderDeep Cut85points
- Tonje BrennaDeep Cut85points
- Tonje VangDeep Cut85points
- Tony BaldinelliDeep Cut85points
- Tony BurkeDeep Cut85points
- Tony DeanDeep Cut85points
- Tony FrangiehDeep Cut85points
- Tony HallDeep Cut85points
- Tony InceDeep Cut85points
- Tony LoffredaDeep Cut85points
- Tony McCormackDeep Cut85points
- Tony MullerDeep Cut85points
- Tony Mwaba KazadiDeep Cut85points
- Tony NwoyeDeep Cut85points
- Tony PasinDeep Cut85points
- Tony RahmDeep Cut85points
- Tony RingDeep Cut85points
- Tony SewellDeep Cut85points
- Tony SheldonDeep Cut85points
- Tony van DijckDeep Cut85points
- Tony VaughanDeep Cut85points
- Tony WiedDeep Cut85points
- Tony WoodleyDeep Cut85points
- Tony WouwouDeep Cut85points
- Toomas JärveojaDeep Cut85points
- Toomas KivimägiDeep Cut85points
- Toomas LukkDeep Cut85points
- Toomas UiboDeep Cut85points
- Tophace KaahwaDeep Cut85points
- Tor André JohnsenDeep Cut85points
- Tor Mikkel WaraDeep Cut85points
- Torben BragaDeep Cut85points
- Torbjørn VereideDeep 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.