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
- Zoe KonstantopoulouDeep Cut85points
- Zoe LofgrenDeep Cut85points
- Zoe MayerDeep Cut85points
- Zoe McKenzieDeep Cut85points
- Zoe RaptiDeep Cut85points
- Zoé Robledo AburtoDeep Cut85points
- Zoe RoyerDeep Cut85points
- Zofia CzernowDeep Cut85points
- Zohair Al-KhashmanDeep Cut85points
- Zoheir BouamamaDeep Cut85points
- Zohreh LajevardiDeep Cut85points
- Zoila Isabel Zambrano RodríguezDeep Cut85points
- Zoilo Ramon Arostegui OrozcoDeep Cut85points
- Zoja Bojanić-LalovićDeep Cut85points
- Zolile Burns-NcamasheDeep Cut85points
- Zoltán BihariDeep Cut85points
- Zoltán MiklósDeep Cut85points
- Zoltán MolnárDeep Cut85points
- Zoltán NémethDeep Cut85points
- Zoltán SzafkóDeep Cut85points
- Zoltán SzentgyörgyiDeep Cut85points
- Zoltán TanácsDeep Cut85points
- Zoltán TarrDeep Cut85points
- Zoltán ZakariásDeep Cut85points
- Zomura ManezoDeep Cut85points
- Zonayed SakiDeep Cut85points
- Zondol HerssesseDeep Cut85points
- Zora JaurováDeep Cut85points
- Zoran GajićDeep Cut85points
- Zoran JojicDeep Cut85points
- Zoran KocevskiDeep Cut85points
- Zoran LutovacDeep Cut85points
- Zoran LyutkovDeep Cut85points
- Zoran MilanovićDeep Cut85points
- Zoran MojškercDeep Cut85points
- Zoran SapuricDeep Cut85points
- Zoran StevanovićDeep Cut85points
- Zorancho JovanchevDeep Cut85points
- Zoraya Villacis PalaciosDeep Cut85points
- Zoubainatou SalihouDeep Cut85points
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- Zsófia KonczDeep Cut85points
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- Zsolt BókaDeep Cut85points
- Zsolt GyukDeep Cut85points
- Zsolt HegedűsDeep Cut85points
- Zsolt NémethDeep Cut85points
- Zsolt PappDeep Cut85points
- Zsolt RákiDeep Cut85points
- Zsolt SándorDeep 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.