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Ayatollah Khomeini famously dismissed the idea that the price of this food caused Iran’s revolution. A futuristic museum honors this food in Dàxīng (“dah-sheeng”) District, Beijing, where consumers prize Xīnjiāng’s Hāmì variety. (10[4])A ruler born (10[1])in (10[1])Andijan who wept for joy (10[1])to eat this food from Kabul ranked Akhsi’s Mir Timur variety above (10[1])Bukhara’s (10[1])in the (10[1])Bāburnāma. (10[1])Utility hikes by (-5[1])the Bakiyev (“bah-KEE-yeff”) clan sparked an April 2010 revolution nicknamed for this (10[1])food five years after the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan. (10[1])A torpedo-shaped variety of these fruits (-5[1])inspired an August holiday (10[1])created by Saparmurat Niyazov in Turkmenistan. These cucurbits (“kew-KER-bits”) include the misleadingly named Armenian cucumber, waxy “winter” ones used in (10[1])wife cakes, and orange (-5[1])Persian pepos named for their fragrance. For 10 points, the Silk Roads spread what rinded fruit’s musk and honeydew (10[3])varieties? (10[4])■END■ (10[2])

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