Problem: "The painting medium ""tempera"" has what as a base?"
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A: egg yolk

Problem: Give a year in the life of the artist Anthony van Dyck.
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A: 1599 1641

Problem: If Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence fictionalizes the life of Paul Gauguin, his novel Cakes and Ale contains characterizations of which English author who never lived in Wessex?
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A: thomas hardy

Problem: Into what sea does the Volga River flow?
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A:
caspian sea