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
- Vincent ÉbléDeep Cut85points
- Vincent Ekow AssafuahDeep Cut85points
- Vincent GiraudDeep Cut85points
- Vincent HoDeep Cut85points
- Vincent JeanbrunDeep Cut85points
- Vincent KarremansDeep Cut85points
- Vincent KumuraDeep Cut85points
- Vincent LedouxDeep Cut85points
- Vincent LilandaDeep Cut85points
- Vincent LouaultDeep Cut85points
- Vincent MagwenyaDeep Cut85points
- Vincent MaitreDeep Cut85points
- Vincent Musyoka MusauDeep Cut85points
- Vincent Oppong AsamoahDeep Cut85points
- Vincent RollandDeep Cut85points
- Vincent ScourneauDeep Cut85points
- Vincent ThiébautDeep Cut85points
- Vincent TrébuchetDeep Cut85points
- Vincent Van PeteghemDeep Cut85points
- Vincent Van QuickenborneDeep Cut85points
- Vincent VigneauDeep Cut85points
- Vincenza AloisioDeep Cut85points
- Vincenza RandoDeep Cut85points
- Vincenzo AmendolaDeep Cut85points
- Vincenzo AmichDeep Cut85points
- Vincenzo LopilatoDeep Cut85points
- Vinceroy JordanDeep Cut85points
- Vindhya PersaudDeep Cut85points
- Vinicio PeluffoDeep Cut85points
- Vinicius CarvalhoDeep Cut85points
- Vinicius GurgelDeep Cut85points
- Vinko LogajDeep Cut85points
- Vinod Kumar BindDeep Cut85points
- Vinod Shridhar TawdeDeep Cut85points
- Vinzenz GlaserDeep Cut85points
- Viola Samuel SatiDeep Cut85points
- Violeta AlexandruDeep Cut85points
- Violeta TurauskaitėDeep Cut85points
- Violetta BockDeep Cut85points
- Violette SpilleboutDeep Cut85points
- Viorel BardaDeep Cut85points
- Viorica SanduDeep Cut85points
- Vipul Manubhai PancholiDeep Cut85points
- Virendra KumarDeep Cut85points
- Virendra SinghDeep Cut85points
- Virgilijus AleknaDeep Cut85points
- Virgílio Ferreira de Fontes PereiraDeep Cut85points
- Virgilio Mendoza AmezcuaDeep Cut85points
- Virgílio Pedro SamussongoDeep Cut85points
- Virgiliu PâslariucDeep 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.