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 |
| Cole Hartung | Kinkaid | Winston Churchill A | 13 | 0 |
| Isaac McCollum | Hoover B | Norris | 13 | 20 |
| 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 |
| Jesse Rabbitt | John Adams B | Northmont B | 60 | 20 |
| Sam McNamee | Maggie Walker A | St. Mark's | 60 | 20 |
| Brian Zhou | Thomas Jefferson D | Chattahoochee A | 60 | 20 |
| Abigail Lee | Thomas Jefferson C | Barrington B | 60 | 20 |
| Fahian Joy | Hunter B | Rockford Auburn B | 60 | 20 |
| Adhav Ravikumar | Innovation Academy A | Winston Churchill B | 60 | 20 |
| Tony Han | Carbondale | Carl Sandburg | 61 | 20 |
| Luke Puttnam | Innovation Academy B | Elkhorn North | 62 | 20 |
| Diane Buffet-Mogul | Mercer County | Cincinnati Hills Christian | 64 | 20 |
| Eric Hu | Maggie Walker B | Saint Joseph | 64 | 20 |
| Monit Karmaker | Stevenson A | Parkway West | 64 | 0 |
| Sam Konkel | Johns Creek A | Belmont | 66 | 20 |
| Ian Mann | Walter Payton | Choate Rosemary Hall | 66 | 20 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Mira Loma | Plymouth | 67 | 20 |
| Brian O'Connell | Woodland | Rockford Auburn A | 67 | 20 |
| Rohan Dalal | Johns Creek B | Lincoln-Way East | 71 | 0 |
| Chris Goolsby | Detroit Catholic Central C | Waukee | 71 | 0 |
| JT Baysinger | Moberly | Detroit Catholic Central B | 71 | 10 |
| Ryan Fitzgerald | Northmont A | Winnebago | 71 | 10 |
| Costas Pavlou | Detroit Country Day | Richard Montgomery | 72 | 10 |
| Donovan Jensen | Belvidere | Lake Highland | 72 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | Solon | University Lab | 73 | 10 |
| John Hines-Shah | Hinsdale Central | Irvington A | 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 |
| Aristuto Paul | Parkway West | Stevenson A | 123 | 10 |
| Lylian Zhu | Stevenson B | West Point | 123 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | William Fremd | Troy | 123 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Barrington A | Thomas Jefferson B | 123 | 10 |