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100

This is the most popular type of apple variety in the United States.

What is Gala?

100

This vegetable is actually a member of the grass family.

What is corn?

100

This planetary body was formally demoted in 2006.

What is Pluto?

100

This astringent chemical is necessary for traditional pretzel baking.

What is lye?

100

This is the only US state that is larger than Texas, by area.

What is Alaska?

200

The state in the US that produces the most fruit by volume.

What is California?

200

This fruit was feared in Medieval Europe for hundreds of years for its fabled toxicity, being labeled the "poison apple".

What are tomatoes?

200
Technologist Elon Musk has been married to two women, but only one of them twice. 

Who is Talulah Riley?

200

This ancient empire is generally accepted to have baked the first bread around 8000BCE.

What is Egypt?

200

This presidential famously attempted to eat a tamale at a campaign stop in Texas with the corn husk still attached.

Who is Gerald Ford?

300

The three original types of citrus fruit that all other citrus are descended from.

What are mandarin orange, pomelo, and citron?

300

In an annual event held in Oaxaca, Mexico on December 23, a festival featuring dancing and oversized vegetable carving honors this local delicacy. 

What is a radish?

300

This space tourist is known for participating in one of the earliest on-screen interracial kisses in the US.

Who is William Shatner

300

This English queen is the namesake for one of the most popular British teacakes.

Who is Queen Victoria?

300

This famous soda was invented in Waco, Texas in 1885.

What is Dr. Pepper?

400

This is the most expensive fruit in the world (per unit).

What is Yurabi King Melon?

400

This is the size of the largest pumpkin ever recorded (to within 10kg).

What is 1226kg?

400

This collaborative ESA/NASA spacecraft crashed into the surface of Mars in 1999 due to unit conversion error.

What is the Mars Climate Orbiter?

400

This cousin to the panettone is also often eaten by Italians around Christmastime, but it features a more eggy consistency and less dried fruit.

What is pandoro?

400

This coastal town hosted the deadliest natural disaster in US history in 1900.

What is Galveston?

500

This is the only fruit that reliably sinks in water.

What is mango? (credit to cherry tomato).

500

This large US city is actually named after the local native American word for "garlic".

What is Chicago?

500

This is the number of Starlink satellites that SpaceX has launched over the past 2 years (to within 100 satellites).

How many is 2091?

500

Natural and Dutched Cocoa differ in one key facet, this added chemical bath that causes the alkalinity to shift significantly.

What is potassium carbonate?

500

These six countries are the origin for the theme park name "six flags".

What are Spain, Mexico, France, Texas, US (confederacy) and the US?