Given a factoid/trivia type question, generate the topic of the question. The topic is the entity the question talks about.

Q: Who painted The Card Players, at Feb 2012 the most expensive artwork in the world?

A: the card players
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Q: Who, as the first chairman of the British Rail Board, infamously directed the huge reduction in railway lines across the UK in the 1960s?

A: british railways board
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Q: Bayern is the German name for which region of Germany?

A:
bayern
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