1. A method, in a question and answer (QA) system comprising a processor and a memory, for generating an answer to a superlative question, the method comprising: analyzing, by the QA system, the superlative question to extract a superlative term in the superlative question and a focus of the superlative question; identifying, by the QA system, a metric by which to evaluate the superlative term based on one of a clue term in the superlative question or one or more portions of content of a corpus of information comprising the superlative term and focus; executing, by the QA system, a search of the corpus to identify one or more candidate answers to the superlative question based on evidence passages in the corpus, the superlative term, the focus, and the metric; and outputting, by the QA system, a final answer to the superlative question based on the one or more candidate answers.