UN Trivia
The agency responsible for monitoring and addressing global health emergencies
What is the World Health Organization?
Your first impression to the chair
What is an opening speech?
This is the point the delegate uses when they want to use the restroom.
What is point of personal privilege?
This is the number of signatories you need for a working paper.
What is 2/3 of the committee room?
This is the total number of member states in the UN
What is 193?
The difference between a working paper and a resolution
What is a working paper is the framework of your solution and it becomes a resolution when it is passed?
This is the motion format for a moderated caucus.
These are the 3 “things” you can yield to.
What is to chair, to questions, or to another delegate?
The year was the United Nations founded
What is 1945?
The way to address all members in the committee room
What is honorable chair, fellow delegates, and esteemed guests?
This is the maximum amount you can extend a caucus.
What is half of the original time?
This is the format of debate.
What is
Open Debate, Roll Call, Set Agenda, Speakers List, Alternating Mod and Unmod, Presentations of WP, Pro-Con, (Repeat), Adjourn Debate
The UN has major offices in these three cities outside the US
What are Geneva Vienna and Nairobi?
The difference between an operative clause and a pre-ambulatory clause
What is an operative clause is an actionable solution while a pre-ambulatory pause is the context of the problem?
These are the two reasons a delegate can utilize a right to respond
What is:
A fact about a country is incorrect or misinterpreted them
A delegate is personally insulted
This is an important way to communicate with delegates during opening speeches or moderated caucus.
What is notes (or note passing)?
This teenage climate activist address the UN in 2019 asking “how dare you?”
Who is Greta Thunberg?
The punctuation format of a working paper
What is:
Pre-ambulatory clauses end with a comma and operative passes end with a semicolon.
Decides to remain seized on the matter.
This is the difference between a point of information and a point of inquiry.
What is:
Point of Inquiry - Used to ask the Dais a question regarding Parliamentary Procedure.
Point of Information - Used to ask a delegate a question so they may clarify a speech. (Not always permitted and used only during the speakers list)
These are 2 unusual ways to conduct an unmoderated caucus.
What is a gentlemen’s unmod and a round robin?