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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
- Xavier Espot ZamoraDeep Cut85points
- Xavier IacovelliDeep Cut85points
- Xavier Jaime ManuelDeep Cut85points
- Xavier RoserenDeep Cut85points
- Xhelal SveçlaDeep Cut85points
- Xhemail XhupiDeep Cut85points
- Xiao JieDeep Cut85points
- Xie FengDeep Cut85points
- Xie YaoquanDeep Cut85points
- Ximena Arispe BernabeDeep Cut85points
- Ximena LincolaoDeep Cut85points
- Ximena Naranjo PintoDeep Cut85points
- Ximena ÓrdenesDeep Cut85points
- Ximena Ossandón IrarrázabalDeep Cut85points
- Ximena RinconDeep Cut85points
- Xiomara Ramirez GonzalesDeep Cut85points
- Xiomara Torres LaffitaDeep Cut85points
- Xitlalic Ceja GarcíaDeep Cut85points
- Xóchitl Teresa Arzola VargasDeep Cut85points
- Xóchitl Zagal RamírezDeep Cut85points
- Xola NqolaDeep Cut85points
- Xu FeihongDeep Cut85points
- Y S Avinash ReddyDeep Cut85points
- Ya-Ping Abby LeeDeep Cut85points
- Ya'akov AsherDeep Cut85points
- Ya'akov MargiDeep Cut85points
- Ya'akov TesslerDeep Cut85points
- Yacin Houssein DoualeDeep Cut85points
- Yacine OualidDeep Cut85points
- Yacoub Ould MoineDeep Cut85points
- Yacoub Ould Salem VallDeep Cut85points
- Yacouba YayaDeep Cut85points
- Yacouba Zabre GoubaDeep Cut85points
- Yadnolis Rodríguez SotolongoDeep Cut85points
- Yadollah SafariDeep Cut85points
- Yaduveer WadiyarDeep Cut85points
- Yaël Braun-PivetDeep Cut85points
- Yaël MénachéDeep Cut85points
- Yael Ron Ben-MosheDeep Cut85points
- Yael WillnerDeep Cut85points
- Yaghoub RezazadehDeep Cut85points
- Yagya Bahadur BogatiDeep Cut85points
- Yagyamany NeupaneDeep Cut85points
- Yahaya AbdullahiDeep Cut85points
- Yahia BachirDeep Cut85points
- Yahia Badreddin al-HouthiDeep Cut85points
- Yahia BoukhariDeep Cut85points
- Yahir Yesith Vincenti CamachoDeep Cut85points
- Yahya Abdullah Mohammed HamadDeep Cut85points
- Yahya AfridiDeep 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.