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
- Batuwa Timothy LusalaDeep Cut85points
- Batyn BatbaatarDeep Cut85points
- Batyr AnnayewDeep Cut85points
- Batyr MammedowDeep Cut85points
- Baudelaire Ndong EllaDeep Cut85points
- Bauyrjan SmağulovDeep Cut85points
- Bavy Angelica MichelleDeep Cut85points
- Baxolile NodadaDeep Cut85points
- Baxtiyor ManiyazovDeep Cut85points
- Bayabl Mulate FitguDeep Cut85points
- Bayan Fakhri AbdullahDeep Cut85points
- Bayarmagnain BayarbaatarDeep Cut85points
- Baymyrat AnnamammedowDeep Cut85points
- Bayo AlabaDeep Cut85points
- Bayram BayramDeep Cut85points
- Bayram ŞenocakDeep Cut85points
- Bayron BanegasDeep Cut85points
- Bayush Birhanu KerorsaDeep Cut85points
- Bazaanya MatayoDeep Cut85points
- Bazuka MhangoDeep Cut85points
- Bea DialloDeep Cut85points
- Beat JansDeep Cut85points
- Beat RiederDeep Cut85points
- Beat WaltiDeep Cut85points
- Beáta JuríkDeep Cut85points
- Beate Meinl-ReisingerDeep Cut85points
- Beatrice Aber SamsonDeep Cut85points
- Beatrice AdagalaDeep Cut85points
- Beatrice Askul MoeDeep Cut85points
- Béatrice BellayDeep Cut85points
- Beatrice ByenkyaDeep Cut85points
- Beatrice ElachiDeep Cut85points
- Béatrice GosselinDeep Cut85points
- Beatrice KemeiDeep Cut85points
- Beatrice LorenzinDeep Cut85points
- Béatrice NirereDeep Cut85points
- Béatrice PironDeep Cut85points
- Béatrice RoullaudDeep Cut85points
- Beatrice RwakimariDeep Cut85points
- Beatrice Wani-NoahDeep Cut85points
- Beatrix OrosziDeep Cut85points
- Beatrix von StorchDeep Cut85points
- Beatriz Álvarez FanjulDeep Cut85points
- Beatriz Andrea Navarro PérezDeep Cut85points
- Beatriz BuchiliDeep Cut85points
- Beatriz Carles ArangoDeep Cut85points
- Beatriz Carranza GómezDeep Cut85points
- Beatriz ColomboDeep Cut85points
- Beatriz Hernández BorgesDeep Cut85points
- Beatriz Johnson UrrutiaDeep 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.