In 1998, which Asian country led the world in apple production, far ahead of the second-place United States?

Who wrote the hefty 900-page 1998 novel "I Know This Much Is True"? At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, NASA's Jack King announced "We have ___" for Apollo 11? Shishaldin Volcano on Unimak Island, at 9,373 feet, is the highest mountain in which island chain? At 969 years, who was the longest-lived man in the Bible? At a 1903 dinner party in a fashionable New York restaurant, guests ate while sitting astride which animals? At the 1935 Big Ten championships in Ann Arbor, which Ohio State athlete broke three world records and tied a fourth in… At a 1943 meeting in which North African city did FDR and Churchill agree to invade the "soft underbelly" of the Axis? At a 1944 auction, a handwritten copy of which scientist's paper on special relativity brought a $6.5 million pledge in…