UN History
Where is the UN Headquarters located?
What is New York City?
How do you request to speak in committee
raise your placard
THIS viruses caused a pandemic.
Covid-19
An academic activity where student model the function of the United Nations and attempt to solve real or fictional issues.
What is Model UN?
This student is the leader of a model UN club or team
What is a Head Delegate?
UNGA
What is United Nations General Assembly?
What year was the United Nations created?
What is 1945?
What is the order in which the issues before a committee will be discussed. It is also the first duty of a committee following the roll call.
What is an Agenda?
NUMBER of countries that currently have female leaders
27
A student acting as a representative of a member state or observer in a Model UN conference is known as what?
What is a Delegate?
An entire group of people representing a member state or observer in all committee at the Model UN conference is known as a what?
What is a Delegation?
WTO
World Trade Organization
The UN currently has THIS many member states
What is 193?
What is the first thing you do when you enter committee?
What is role call?
THIS COUNTRY just banned smoking for all future generations.
New Zealand
A request made by a delegate that the committee as a whole should do something.
What is a Motion?
A summary of a country’s position on a topic, written by a delegate before a Model UN conference.
What is a Position Paper?
UNSC
What is United Nations Security Council?
Who is the Secretary General of the UN
What is Antonio Guterres?
What is the type of caucus in which delegates remain seated, and the Chair calls on them one at a time to speak for a short period, enabling an exchange of positions from countries?
What is a Moderated Caucus?
There are now more active conflicts than at any time since ...
1945
A piece of cardstock with a country’s name on it that a delegate raises in the air to signal to the Chair that he or she wishes to speak.
What is a Placard?
This means that the debate is suspended until the next meeting.
What is to Adjourn?
UNICEF
What is United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund?
This year is the UN's ____ birthday
What is 81?
What motion is used when a delegate needs to engage in a personal matter? (ex. using the bathroom)
What is motion of personal privilege?
The spread of this variant has laid bare the inequalities in access to vaccines around the world.
Omicron
What is the staff responsible for facilitating each delegates arc/plan in a crisis committee?
What is a Backroom?
A group of countries in a similar geographical region or with a similar opinion on a particular topic is known as a what?
What is a Bloc?
UNESCO
What is United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization?
This precursor to the UN was created in the aftermath of WW1 and dissolve upon the start of WW2
What is the League of Nations?
When do you use a right of reply?
Rarely, but when a personal attack is made toward a delegate
What is Iran?
What is an author or primary contributor to a working paper or resolution paper?
What is a Sponsor?
During a vote, this generally signals that a state does not support the resolution being voted on, but does not oppose it enough to vote no.
What is to Abstain?
ICC
HINT: A UN adjacent international government organization but NOT a UN branch
What is International Criminal Court?
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. How many are there?
What is 17?
What is a type of caucus in which delegates leave their seats to mingle and speak freely. Enables the free sharing of ideas to an extent not possible in formal debate or even a moderated caucus. Frequently used to sort countries into blocs and to write working papers and draft resolution.
What is an Unmoderated Caucus?
Viktor Bout nicknamed, was released Thursday from US detention in a prisoner swap for US basketball star Brittney Griner.
“Merchant of Death”
A document that has been passed by an organ of the UN that aims to address a particular problem or issue.
What is a Resolution?
What is a change to a draft resolution that will be voted?
What is an Amendment?
UNHCR
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees