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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
- Yemengist Tsegaw WalelignDeep Cut85points
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- Yeney Pérez FalcónDeep Cut85points
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- Yenisey González RodríguezDeep Cut85points
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- Yeom Tae-youngDeep Cut85points
- Yeouk KimDeep Cut85points
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- Yerico Abramo MassoDeep Cut85points
- Yerlan AkkenzhenovDeep Cut85points
- Yerlan KarinDeep Cut85points
- Yerlan SarsembayevDeep Cut85points
- Yermek SagimbayevDeep Cut85points
- Yerram Venkata Subba ReddyDeep Cut85points
- Yesenia Leidely Gonzalez DiazDeep Cut85points
- Yeshey JamtshoDeep Cut85points
- Yeshi Muka WakayeDeep Cut85points
- Yeshihasab Tsegaw WelelawDeep Cut85points
- Yeshika CrespoDeep Cut85points
- Yeshimebet Demise SewagegnehuDeep Cut85points
- Yeshimebrat Mersha KasaDeep Cut85points
- Yesica RomeroDeep Cut85points
- Yessica Juárez GarcíaDeep Cut85points
- Yessid Enrique Pulgar DazaDeep Cut85points
- Yevgeny NifantievDeep Cut85points
- Yevgeny PopovDeep Cut85points
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- Yevhenii BraharDeep Cut85points
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- Yezina Mulati ZelekeDeep Cut85points
- Yhamil Avigail Herrera CusicanquiDeep Cut85points
- Yhaqui Quispe RamirezDeep Cut85points
- Yhercina Mendez TarifaDeep Cut85points
- Yi-pei Chou TurveyDeep Cut85points
- Yiannis LaourisDeep Cut85points
- Yiftu Gudisa OshkoDeep 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.