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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
- Uttam Prasad PoudelDeep Cut85points
- Utut AdiantoDeep Cut85points
- Uwani Musa Abba AjiDeep Cut85points
- Uwe FeilerDeep Cut85points
- Uwe SchmidtDeep Cut85points
- Uwe SchulzDeep Cut85points
- Uya KuyaDeep Cut85points
- V K SreekandanDeep Cut85points
- V SomannaDeep Cut85points
- V. MohanaDeep Cut85points
- V. NarayananDeep Cut85points
- V. SivadasanDeep Cut85points
- V. SivakumarDeep Cut85points
- V. Vijayendra PrasadDeep Cut85points
- V.S. RadhakrishnanDeep Cut85points
- Va'aaoao Salumalo AlofipoDeep Cut85points
- Va'aelua Sentenari SamauDeep Cut85points
- Vaad MoradbeygiDeep Cut85points
- Václav LáskaDeep Cut85points
- Václav PláteníkDeep Cut85points
- Václav TrojanDeep Cut85points
- Vadim Alexandrovich ChechenkoDeep Cut85points
- Vadim BelobrovtsevDeep Cut85points
- Vadim GiginDeep Cut85points
- Vadim KuminDeep Cut85points
- Vadim NedikDeep Cut85points
- Vadim Valentinovich KamyshanDeep Cut85points
- Vadim Valerievich TretyakovDeep Cut85points
- Vadim Vitalievich VasilievDeep Cut85points
- Vadim Zakharovich BazayevDeep Cut85points
- Vadym HalaichukDeep Cut85points
- Vadym IvchenkoDeep Cut85points
- Vadym OmelchenkoDeep Cut85points
- Vadym StolarDeep Cut85points
- Vadym StrunevychDeep Cut85points
- Vadzim SiniawskiDeep Cut85points
- Vagharshak HakobyanDeep Cut85points
- Vagondo DiomandéDeep Cut85points
- Vahagn AleksanyanDeep Cut85points
- Vahagn KhachatryanDeep Cut85points
- Vahe GhalumyanDeep Cut85points
- Vahe HovhannisyanDeep Cut85points
- Vahid AhmadiDeep Cut85points
- Vahid AhmadovDeep Cut85points
- Vahid KananiDeep Cut85points
- Vaida AleknavičienėDeep Cut85points
- Vaino Tuhafeni HangulaDeep Cut85points
- Vakhtang TurnavaDeep Cut85points
- Val HoyleDeep Cut85points
- Valdas RakutisDeep 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.