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1. I was introduced to the Americas by Columbus. I am 95 percent water with little nutritional value. My insides can be up to 20 degrees cooler than my outside, which is also cool, because I'm cool as a ______?
2. I am a green plant that has been cultivated for over 2,000 years. I am thought to be the ancestor to all of today's cabbage varieties. What am I?
3. The historian Pliny insulted me by saying that I have "remarkable power of causing flatulence and eructation". Americans eat more than 400 million pounds of me every year, mostly in salads, but in Japan I'm a popular breakfast food. What am I?
4. Sadly, my claim to fame is being hated by a US President. I am an ancient veggie, having been developed on the island of Cyprus about 2,500 years ago. Most of my kind grown in the US is grown in California's Salinas Valley.
5. I am originally from the Mediterranean, perhaps Sicily. In the Middle Ages I was thought to be an aphrodisiac. My claim to fame, however, is having the one and only Marilyn Monroe being crowned queen of my kind in 1947! What am I?
6. I am probably the only vegetable where the vast majority are sold to decorate with, and not to eat.. this makes me sad, so carve a sad face on me! What am I?
7. Although I'm a member of the onion family from the Mediterranean, I am the national emblem of Wales. What am I?
8. Although I look like a turnip, I'm actually a different member of the mustard family. I'm of European origin. Some people eat my leaves. What am I?
9. I'm tall and crunchy. I'm of Mediterranean origin and was first grown commercially in the US in Michigan in 1874.
10. A somewhat rare vegetable, I'm from the Middle East, although I'm mostly eaten in the American South. I appear most often in a thick soup called gumbo. What am I?
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