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
- Arturo EusebioDeep Cut85points
- Arturo Olivares CerdaDeep Cut85points
- Arturo Prado PugaDeep Cut85points
- Arturo Roberto Hernández TapiaDeep Cut85points
- Arturo ScottoDeep Cut85points
- Arturo SquellaDeep Cut85points
- Arturo Urbieta CuevasDeep Cut85points
- Arturo UrbiteDeep Cut85points
- Arturo Yañez CuellarDeep Cut85points
- Artūrs ButānsDeep Cut85points
- Artūrs KlēbahsDeep Cut85points
- Artyom TurovDeep Cut85points
- Arun BhartiDeep Cut85points
- Arun GovilDeep Cut85points
- Arun HemachandraDeep Cut85points
- Arun Kumar SagarDeep Cut85points
- Arun Lual RunDeep Cut85points
- Arun NehruDeep Cut85points
- Arun PalliDeep Cut85points
- Arun SinghDeep Cut85points
- Aruna JayasekeraDeep Cut85points
- Aruna PanagodaDeep Cut85points
- Arūnas DudėnasDeep Cut85points
- Arūnas ValinskasDeep Cut85points
- Arup ChakrabortyDeep Cut85points
- Arusyak ManavazyanDeep Cut85points
- Arvils AšeradensDeep Cut85points
- Arvin BoolellDeep Cut85points
- Arvind DharmapuriDeep Cut85points
- Arvind SahDeep Cut85points
- Arvind SawantDeep Cut85points
- Arvo AllerDeep Cut85points
- Arvydas AnušauskasDeep Cut85points
- Arvydas PociusDeep Cut85points
- Arwa Al-ZabounDeep Cut85points
- Arwin SohrabiDeep Cut85points
- Aryeh DeriDeep Cut85points
- Arzu NaghiyevDeep Cut85points
- Åsa AnderssonDeep Cut85points
- Ása Berglind HjálmarsdóttirDeep Cut85points
- Åsa CoenraadsDeep Cut85points
- Åsa ErikssonDeep Cut85points
- Åsa KullgrenDeep Cut85points
- Åsa LindhagenDeep Cut85points
- Åsa WestlundDeep Cut85points
- Asa'ad bin Tariq Al SaidDeep Cut85points
- Asaad al-ShaibaniDeep Cut85points
- Asad Alam NiaziDeep Cut85points
- Asad QaiserDeep Cut85points
- Asad QasimDeep 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.