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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
- Vassily NebenziaDeep Cut85points
- Vasyl MokanDeep Cut85points
- Vasyl NimchenkoDeep Cut85points
- Vasyl VirastyukDeep Cut85points
- Vatiswa MugwanyaDeep Cut85points
- Vaxobjon MuratkabilovDeep Cut85points
- Ve VaithilingamDeep Cut85points
- Vebjørn DysvikDeep Cut85points
- Vebjørn GorsethDeep Cut85points
- Vedat IşıkhanDeep Cut85points
- Veena DeviDeep Cut85points
- Veerayooth KanchoochatDeep Cut85points
- Vegard WenneslandDeep Cut85points
- Veijo NiemiDeep Cut85points
- Veikko NekundiDeep Cut85points
- Veit DenglerDeep Cut85points
- Velaphi NdlovuDeep Cut85points
- Velenkosini HlabisaDeep Cut85points
- Veli AğbabaDeep Cut85points
- Velika Stojkova-SerafimovskaDeep Cut85points
- Velislav VelichkovDeep Cut85points
- Velislava N PetrovaDeep Cut85points
- Veljko KajtaziDeep Cut85points
- Vem Narendar ReddyDeep Cut85points
- Vendula SvobodováDeep Cut85points
- Venedikt Dekartovich SuvorovDeep Cut85points
- Veneziano Vital do RêgoDeep Cut85points
- Venko FilipčeDeep Cut85points
- Venko SabrutevDeep Cut85points
- Ventura Vega OsorioDeep Cut85points
- Venustiano Caamal CocomDeep Cut85points
- Věra AdámkováDeep Cut85points
- Vera Alexandrovna AntropovaDeep Cut85points
- Vera BabounDeep Cut85points
- Vera DavesDeep Cut85points
- Vera GranfolDeep Cut85points
- Věra KovářováDeep Cut85points
- Vera Maria Assuncao Gomes CravidDeep Cut85points
- Vera Nikolaevna SukhikhDeep Cut85points
- Věra ProcházkováDeep Cut85points
- Verasak VichitsangsriDeep Cut85points
- Verdon BahandaDeep Cut85points
- Verena HubertzDeep Cut85points
- Verena MadnerDeep Cut85points
- Verena NussbaumDeep Cut85points
- Verena SchweigerDeep Cut85points
- Verginia VedinașDeep Cut85points
- Vern BuchananDeep Cut85points
- Vernon CoakerDeep Cut85points
- Verona MurphyDeep 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.