International Treaties, Conventions, Declarations, and Protocols
The United Nations
National Capitals, Flags, and Leaders
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A motion is usually made for at the beginning of every single committee session
What is Open the Speakers List?
100
The international Treaty that governs the United Nations and that all its members states must sign
What is the United Nations Charter
100
The UN Primary Organ that Represents all 193 member states
What is the General Assembly
100
The current Secretary General of the United Nations
Who is Ban Ki Moon?
100
The Clauses that are used in a resolution to introduce it
What are Preambulatory Clauses?
200
When a Delegate has a personal discomfort, like he/she is cold and would like to close a window, they motion for this.
Bonus Question: Can you interrupt a speaker for this?
What is Point of Personnel Privilege
Bonus Answer: Yes
200
The Eight Goals adopted by the World Community in the year 2000 to be achieved by the year 2015
What are the Millennium Development Goals?
200
The primary food aid organization of the United Nations
What is the World Food Programme (WFP)
200
The Capital of Peru
What is Lima?
200
The Organization that Preceded the United Nations as an international institution to foster peace and security.
What is the League of Nations?
300
Daily Double!!
When a delegate or delegation is personally insulted by a fellow delegate, they can take this action in committee. Must specify how a delegate logistically does this in committee
What is Right of Reply? Delegate/Delegation must submit a written request to the chair, then draft up a formal response to be read in front of the committee
300
A set of Four Conventions and three Protocols that online the international rules of war
What is/are the Geneva Convention(s) and Protocol(s)
First Geneva Convention (1864)
Second Geneva Convention (1906)
Third Geneva Convention (1929)
Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) this is the one most people think of.
Protocol I (1977)
Protocol II (1977)
Protocol III (2005)
300
The Six Recognized Languages of the United Nations
What is Arabic, English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Chinese?
300
The current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Bonus: What is his/her political party?
Who is David Cameron?
Bonus Answer: The Conservative Party
The three ways a delegate can yield his or her time after speaking on the Speakers List
What is Yield to the Chair, Yield to Points of Information, and Yield to the fellow Delegate from (country)?
400
An international agreement signed in 1997 and in effective as of 2005 that sets binding obligations on industrialized countries to decrease their greenhouse gas emissions.
Bonus: When was it set to expire and to when was it extended to?
What is the Kyoto Protocol
Bonus Answer: It was set to expire in 2015 but was extended at this Summer's Rio Earth Summit until 2020.
400
The only organ of the United Nations that has been inactive since 1994, when Palau joined the United Nations as a member state
The disputed northern territory between Pakistan and India.
What is Kashmir?
500
Daily Double!!
Name 10 different Points and/or motions in Model UN and explain what they are/what they need to occur.
Answers Can Include but are not limited to:
Motion
to enter Voting Procedure
for a Moderated Caucus
for a Unmoderated Caucus
to Adjourn Debate
to Adjourn the Meeting
to Open the Speakers List
to take Roll Call
to Suspend Debate
to Set the Speaking Time
to Close Debate
Point
of Personal Privilege
of Inquiry
of Information
of Order
500
Name the three international Treaties/Declarations/Covenants that compose the International Bill of Human Rights
What is
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
500
The only nation who has been asked to join the United Nations as a member state but has refused
What is the Holy Sea (The Vatican)?
500
These two countries had the exact same flags but didn't know it until the 1936 Olympics when they were forced to compete against each other. Each nation alter altered their flags to avoid confusion.
What is Haiti and Lichtenstein?
500
Daily Double!!
The President of the United States in 1901 and one action he took that had international ramifications (Hint; it ended a war between two of the most powerful nations in the east).
Who is Theodore Roosevelt and what is the The Treaty of Portsmouth (Russo-Japanese Treaty of 1905).