2. When M.R.C. Greenwood, dean of graduate studies and vice provost for academic outreach, was at the White House, her job was to:
A. Use her nutrition background to make sure Bill Clinton stopped eating all those hamburgers.
B. Provide a vision for science and technology policy.
C. Write "Science in the National Interest."
D. Set up graduate student internships in Washington, D.C.
E. B and C
3. Faculty member Wing Thye Woo has been an adviser to more than a half dozen governments, including China, Mongolia, Ukraine, and Indonesia. How does he help them?
A. He advises on environmental policies.
B. He suggests ways of managing the exchange rate, restructuring the state enterprise sector, reducing inflation
and improving the tax system.
C. He assesses art for its historical value.
D. He lobbies Washington to help these countries to improve their socio-economic-political-aesthetic ambience and their mental readiness to use the information superhighway to enter the 21st century.
4. Law professor Carol Bruch, a consultant to the U.S. Department of State on family law matters, is helping to prepare the U.S. contributions for the October 1996 Hague Conference for the Protection of Children. Bruch says to be successful, the international treaty should:
A. Operate on the KISS (Keep it Simple, Stupid) principle.
B. Begin by understanding the problem.
C. Insist that governments signing the treaty create a centralized agency to intervene on these issues of international litigation.
D. Throw out the conventional legal approaches and work on more
creative ways to solve the problems.
E. All of the above
5. If you were to ask political science professor Bruce Jentleson where he made his impact at the State Department in 1993-94, he would point to:
A. His work with the U.S. delegation to the Middle East Multilateral Arms Control and Regional Security Talks, involving Israel and 14 Arab states
B. Being a member of the U.S. bargaining team for oil rights and off-shore production in the North Sea
C. Normalization of relations between Vietnam and the United States
D. The Latin American Human Rights Commission
6. Who was appointed last fall to co-chair the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Research Facilities Review Committee, a group that will recommend the process and criteria for a review of all USDA facilities that is expected to result in a 10-year strategic plan for their use?
A. Hal Carter, professor emeritus of agricultural economics
B. Barbara Schneeman, dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
C. Ed Price, chair of the Department of Animal Science
D. Charley Hess, professor emeritus of environmental horticulture and former undersecretary for science and education at the U.S. Department of Agriculture
E. Ted Hullar, professor of environmental toxicology and former chancellor
7. What work has environmental studies professor Jim Quinn been doing for the United Nations (hint: see http://ice.ucdavis.edu)?
A. Establishing standards and software for creating a network of international environmental monitoring sites in Europe and North America
B. Creating standards and software for a network of international environmental monitoring sites in Latin America as specified in a trinational agreement among the North American Free Trade Agreement countries
C. Helping to make the biodiversity information gathered from the environmental monitoring sites available to the public
D. Putting the information on a Web site
E. All of the above
8. Agricultural economist Philip Martin has recently testified three times before immigration committees of the House and Senate. He advocates that the United States should select permanent economic immigrants on the basis of:
A. Supply characteristics, such as years of education
B. Political asylum
C. Wealth
D. Ability to speak foreign languages
E. All of the above
9. Limnologist Charles Goldman, who heads the Lake Tahoe Research Group, is active nationally and internationally in conservation efforts for lakes including the former Soviet Union's Lake Baikal. He has made policy recommendations to conserve lakes, including:
A. Increase fertilizer use on golf courses and residential lawns.
B. Establish comprehensive erosion-control projects in mountain streams.
C. Allow sewage spills and keep leaky septic systems.
D. Don't worry about erosion from salvage logging operations
10. When Barbara Schneeman, nutrition professor and dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, participated on a federal committee that advised the U.S. Department of Agriculture on whether new scientific findings justified revising the nation's dietary guidelines, what happened?
A. New federal Dietary Guidelines were created to recognize the fact
that people are not maintaining a healthy weight.
B. The federal committee recommended that, to begin with, people lose only 5 percent to 10 percent of their weight.
C. The recommendations were forwarded to the federal departments of agriculture, and health and human services.
D. Guidelines were created that were less negative than the previous guidelines, stressing moderation in the consumption of alcohol, sugar and salt.
E. All of the above.
11. Who testified last summer before the National Institute of Justice in Washington, D.C., about new research on firearm violence and strategies for its prevention as well as presented his/her work to the National Association of Attorneys General Committee on Consumer Protection?
A. Edward Imwinkelried, professor of law
B. Ed Costantini, professor emeritus of political science
C. Carol Joffe, professor of sociology
D. Garen Wintemute, associate professor of community and international health
E. Phillip Shaver, professor of psychology
12. Agricultural economist Daniel Sumner, who directed a nationwide research project on U.S. agricultural policy and the new farm bill for the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, says that the most dramatic change in the bill just approved is:
A. It reforms dairy policy and changes trade programs.
B. It increases the agricultural department's power to idle cropland.
C. It allows farmers much more flexibility to plant rather than being tied to their historical base of specific crops.
D. It boosts farm subsidies for farmers.
13. Another UC Davis faculty member instrumental in the new farm bill's creation is Bennie Osburn, associate dean of research at the School of Veterinary Medicine. Osburn, chair of the Board of Veterinary Medicine for the National Association of Universities and Land Grant Colleges, has been advising Congress on the Fund for Rural America. The bill:
A. Talks about the importance of quality-assurance systems for food products that meet international standards that will strengthen our position in international trade.
B. Sets up tariffs for Russian food imports in retaliation to that country's cancellation of nearly $800 million in U.S. poultry exports because we did not have set standards for quality assurance.
C. Acknowledges that the United States has the safest food in the world and that there is no need to respond to the European Union with its strict international food-safety standards.
D. Seeks to eliminate the microbial
contamination in livestock through funding scholarships for veterinary school extension courses.
Answers to the National Policy Trivia Quiz
1. C; 2. E; 3. B; 4. E; 5. A; 6. E; 7. E; 8. A;
9. B; 10. E; 11. D; 12. C; 13. A
If you have questions for a future quiz or have some feedback on this one, write to Editor Susanne Rockwell at 334 Mrak Hall or by e-mail, at sgrockwell@ucdavis.edu.
