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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
- Ayesha MalikDeep Cut85points
- Ayesha NazirDeep Cut85points
- Ayesha VerrallDeep Cut85points
- Ayhan BarutDeep Cut85points
- Ayhan SalmanDeep Cut85points
- Ayisha Shehshifa AbdurahamanDeep Cut85points
- Aykut KayaDeep Cut85points
- Aylín Álvarez GarcíaDeep Cut85points
- Aylin Nordelo ValdiviaDeep Cut85points
- Aylin NouriDeep Cut85points
- Aylin PehlivanovaDeep Cut85points
- Aylin YamanDeep Cut85points
- Ayman Abu Al-RubDeep Cut85points
- Ayman Abu HaniehDeep Cut85points
- Ayman Al-BaddadwehDeep Cut85points
- Ayman Al-SayariDeep Cut85points
- Ayman al-ShuqairiDeep Cut85points
- Ayman Hazza' al-MajaliDeep Cut85points
- Ayman OdehDeep Cut85points
- Ayman SafadiDeep Cut85points
- Ayman Sayed SalimDeep Cut85points
- Ayman ShamoDeep Cut85points
- Ayman SuleimanDeep Cut85points
- Aymeric CaronDeep Cut85points
- Aymeric DuroxDeep Cut85points
- Aynalem Niguse AliDeep Cut85points
- Aynul HaqueDeep Cut85points
- Ayo OmotayoDeep Cut85points
- Ayob Khan Mydin PitchayDeep Cut85points
- Ayodele OlawandeDeep Cut85points
- Ayoo Jeneth PhoebeDeep Cut85points
- Ayor Akuoch Anok AduotDeep Cut85points
- Ayoub HmayedDeep Cut85points
- Ayoub KhanDeep Cut85points
- Ayse AsarDeep Cut85points
- Ayşe Sibel ErsoyDeep Cut85points
- Ayse YigitDeep Cut85points
- Ayşegül DoğanDeep Cut85points
- Aysel MustafovaDeep Cut85points
- Aysu BankoğluDeep Cut85points
- Ayten KorduDeep Cut85points
- Ayten SabriDeep Cut85points
- Ayuko KatoDeep Cut85points
- Ayume CharlesDeep Cut85points
- Ayuushiin AriunzayaDeep Cut85points
- Ayyüce TürkeşDeep Cut85points
- Azad Kirti JhaDeep Cut85points
- Azadeh RojhanDeep Cut85points
- Azahari HasanDeep Cut85points
- Azali AssoumaniDeep 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.