In 1810, Jean-Antoine Chaptal rediscovered how this commodity was successfully stored in Roman horrea. In the 1960s, Pakistan’s economy was transformed by adopting the Penjamo (“pen-HAH-mo”) 620 variety of this crop. Climate change has threatened a “belt” named for this crop in Western Australia. In the 19th century, up to a million tons of this crop were exported each year from Odessa. This crop was imported in great quantities from (*) Egypt for Rome’s Cura Annonae handout. Norman Borlaug’s “semi-dwarf” variety of this crop, first used in Mexico, kickstarted the Green Revolution. The song “America the Beautiful” describes the “amber waves” of this crop. For 10 points, name this crop whose germ and bran layers are removed from the flour used to produce white bread. ■END■
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 100% | 54% | 0% | 72.09 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vishesh Verma | Troy | William Fremd | 9 | 0 |
| Isaac McCollum | Hoover B | Norris | 13 | 20 |
| Cole Hartung | Kinkaid | Winston Churchill A | 13 | 0 |
| Eleanor Heydt | Midtown | Maggie Walker C | 16 | 20 |
| Ryan Zhang | Thomas Jefferson B | Barrington A | 29 | 0 |
| Andrew Shi | Thomas Jefferson A | Detroit Catholic Central A | 38 | 20 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Canyon Crest | Dallas County | 39 | 20 |
| Sean Harbison | West Point | Stevenson B | 41 | 0 |
| Evan Schleck | Hunter A | Dunbar | 42 | 20 |
| Adhav Ravikumar | Innovation Academy A | Winston Churchill B | 60 | 20 |
| Abigail Lee | Thomas Jefferson C | Barrington B | 60 | 20 |
| Fahian Joy | Hunter B | Rockford Auburn B | 60 | 20 |
| Sam McNamee | Maggie Walker A | St. Mark's | 60 | 20 |
| Brian Zhou | Thomas Jefferson D | Chattahoochee A | 60 | 20 |
| Jesse Rabbitt | John Adams B | Northmont B | 60 | 20 |
| Tony Han | Carbondale | Carl Sandburg | 61 | 20 |
| Luke Puttnam | Innovation Academy B | Elkhorn North | 62 | 20 |
| Eric Hu | Maggie Walker B | Saint Joseph | 64 | 20 |
| Monit Karmaker | Stevenson A | Parkway West | 64 | 0 |
| Diane Buffet-Mogul | Mercer County | Cincinnati Hills Christian | 64 | 20 |
| Ian Mann | Walter Payton | Choate Rosemary Hall | 66 | 20 |
| Sam Konkel | Johns Creek A | Belmont | 66 | 20 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Mira Loma | Plymouth | 67 | 20 |
| Brian O'Connell | Woodland | Rockford Auburn A | 67 | 20 |
| Ryan Fitzgerald | Northmont A | Winnebago | 71 | 10 |
| Chris Goolsby | Detroit Catholic Central C | Waukee | 71 | 0 |
| JT Baysinger | Moberly | Detroit Catholic Central B | 71 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Johns Creek B | Lincoln-Way East | 71 | 0 |
| Donovan Jensen | Belvidere | Lake Highland | 72 | 10 |
| Costas Pavlou | Detroit Country Day | Richard Montgomery | 72 | 10 |
| John Hines-Shah | Hinsdale Central | Irvington A | 73 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | Solon | University Lab | 73 | 10 |
| Martin Ames | Chattahoochee B | Mexico | 76 | 10 |
| Geo Beach | New Brighton | Heights | 76 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | John Adams A | Norman | 78 | 10 |
| Anila Moparthi | Lincoln-Way East | Johns Creek B | 100 | 10 |
| Miles Sierra | Waukee | Detroit Catholic Central C | 122 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Winston Churchill A | Kinkaid | 122 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Barrington A | Thomas Jefferson B | 123 | 10 |
| Aristuto Paul | Parkway West | Stevenson A | 123 | 10 |
| Lylian Zhu | Stevenson B | West Point | 123 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | William Fremd | Troy | 123 | 10 |