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. A ruler born in Andijan who wept for joy to eat this food from Kabul ranked Akhsi’s Mir Timur variety above Bukhara’s in the Bāburnāma. Utility hikes by the Bakiyev (“bah-KEE-yeff”) clan sparked an April 2010 revolution nicknamed for this food five years after the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan. A torpedo-shaped variety of these fruits inspired an August holiday created by Saparmurat Niyazov in Turkmenistan. These cucurbits (“kew-KER-bits”) include the misleadingly named Armenian cucumber, waxy “winter” ones used in wife cakes, and orange Persian pepos named for their fragrance. For 10 points, the Silk Roads spread what rinded fruit’s musk and honeydew varieties? ■END■
ANSWER: melons [accept watermelon, muskmelon, honeydew melon, cantaloupe, winter melon, gulobi melon, or other melon varieties; accept xīguā, dōngguā, xiāng guā, qovun, battikh, Citrullus, C. lanatus, Cucumis, or C. melo; accept Melon Revolution or Melon Day; prompt on gourds or cucurbits or Cucurbitaceae until “cucurbits” is read; reject “bitter melon”]
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