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
- Yoko KamikawaDeep Cut85points
- Yōko ShirakawaDeep Cut85points
- Yolanda de SousaDeep Cut85points
- Yolanda DíazDeep Cut85points
- Yolanda ParedesDeep Cut85points
- Yolanda Silva RomeroDeep Cut85points
- Yolanda VegaDeep Cut85points
- Yolanda Wong BaldirisDeep Cut85points
- Yolande Elebe MandemboDeep Cut85points
- Yolennis Rodríguez PanequeDeep Cut85points
- Yolexis Rodríguez ArmadaDeep Cut85points
- Yolly Macarena Montilla MontillaDeep Cut85points
- Yoloczin Lizbeth Domínguez SernaDeep Cut85points
- Yonah MartinDeep Cut85points
- Yonatan MishrakiDeep Cut85points
- Yonder Neomar Silva TovarDeep Cut85points
- Yong Hye-inDeep Cut85points
- Yonis Ali GuediDeep Cut85points
- Yonny KulendiDeep Cut85points
- Yoo Dong-sooDeep Cut85points
- Yoo Sang-bumDeep Cut85points
- Yoo Yong-WonDeep Cut85points
- Yoo Young-haDeep Cut85points
- Yoon Han-hongDeep Cut85points
- Yoon Hu-dukDeep Cut85points
- Yoon Jong-gunDeep Cut85points
- Yoon Jong-oDeep Cut85points
- Yoon Joon-byeongDeep Cut85points
- Yoon KimDeep Cut85points
- Yoon Sang-hyunDeep Cut85points
- Yoon Young-seokDeep Cut85points
- Yor Achien AngokDeep Cut85points
- Yor Okuch MalualDeep Cut85points
- Yorai Lahav-HertzanuDeep Cut85points
- Yordan IvanovDeep Cut85points
- Yordan TerziyskiDeep Cut85points
- Yordan TodorovDeep Cut85points
- Yordan YovchevDeep Cut85points
- Yordanka FandakovaDeep Cut85points
- Yordany Andarcio ÁlvarezDeep Cut85points
- Yorleny León MarchenaDeep Cut85points
- Yorman Cruz Jimenez RamirezDeep Cut85points
- Yosef TaiebDeep Cut85points
- Yōsei IdeDeep Cut85points
- Yoshiaki WadaDeep Cut85points
- Yoshifu AritaDeep Cut85points
- Yoshifumi HamanoDeep Cut85points
- Yoshifumi MatsumuraDeep Cut85points
- Yoshifumi MiyajimaDeep Cut85points
- Yoshihiko IsozakiDeep 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.