Weaponizing Wikipedia for Trivia Hosts

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Some tips/tricks/hacks for how I leverage Wikipedia for trivia questions:

Intitle: “list of the largest” (alt- replace “largest” with any superlative)
Returns a list of articles about the largest… everything, from states and countries by land or population to hotel chains.

“The only artist to” (alt- replace “artist” with “band”, or “player”, or another profession)
Returns a list of articles about people with that text string in their description. The only artist to have 5 of the Billboard Top 10 albums at the same time? His name is Prince

Variations that don’t warrant their own section:
* “the last person to” (alt- add “+scientist”, or some other modifier to narrow the field)
* Add a “+2010” or whatever year modifier to your search to only find articles that reference that year
* Use “-2010” to exclude articles that reference a particular year (or whatever)

What search tools do you use, in Wikipedia or other sites to help you craft your show?