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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
- Yoshihiko MizunoDeep Cut85points
- Yoshihiko NodaDeep Cut85points
- Yoshihiko YamadaDeep Cut85points
- Yoshihiro KawanoDeep Cut85points
- Yoshihiro OkumuraDeep Cut85points
- Yoshihiro SekiDeep Cut85points
- Yoshihiro SuzukiDeep Cut85points
- Yoshihisa FurukawaDeep Cut85points
- Yoshiko KiraDeep Cut85points
- Yoshimasa HayashiDeep Cut85points
- Yoshinobu KusunokiDeep Cut85points
- Yoshinori HakuiDeep Cut85points
- Yoshinori KitaDeep Cut85points
- Yoshinori TadokoroDeep Cut85points
- Yoshio KimuraDeep Cut85points
- Yoshio MochizukiDeep Cut85points
- Yoshitaka HoshinoDeep Cut85points
- Yoshitaka ItōDeep Cut85points
- Yoshitaka NishiokaDeep Cut85points
- Yoshitaka SaitoDeep Cut85points
- Yoshitaka ShindoDeep Cut85points
- Yoshiyuki InoueDeep Cut85points
- Yosmar Amalia Leon BurgosDeep Cut85points
- Yosneisy Josefina Paredes FajardoDeep Cut85points
- YosranDeep Cut85points
- Yōsuke KonDeep Cut85points
- Yosuke MoriDeep Cut85points
- Yosuke TsuruhoDeep Cut85points
- Yotam MtayachaloDeep Cut85points
- Yotchai PhuengphonDeep Cut85points
- Yotsawat MaphaisansinDeep Cut85points
- Yotsing LiamloetDeep Cut85points
- You Ying-lungDeep Cut85points
- Youba BaDeep Cut85points
- Youcef BelmehdiDeep Cut85points
- Youmo Nkoupit AdamouDeep Cut85points
- Youn Kun-youngDeep Cut85points
- Younes MakhiounDeep Cut85points
- Young KimDeep Cut85points
- Young Syefura OthmanDeep Cut85points
- Younoussa ImaniDeep Cut85points
- Youns BjijouDeep Cut85points
- Younten PhuntshoDeep Cut85points
- Yourew Wol kuotDeep Cut85points
- Yousaf JunaidDeep Cut85points
- Yousaf KhanDeep Cut85points
- Yousaf Raza GilaniDeep Cut85points
- Yousef Al OtaibaDeep Cut85points
- Yousef Al-BenyanDeep Cut85points
- Yousef ShraidehDeep 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.