The United Nations
Points and Motions
Geography
MUN Lingo
MUN Lingo 2
100

"UN" is an acronym for this IGO. 

What is the United Nations?

100

You raise this object to motion in a session. 

What is a placard (with your country's name on it)?

100

This nation has the highest population as of 2025. 

What is India?

100

This term is used to remind delegates to be peaceful with one another.

What is decorum?

100

This is a term used to describe the leader(s) of a committee.

What is a Chair(s)?

200

 The UN was founded in this year. (Bonus points if you know the day the Charter was signed).

When is 1945 (Charter signed June 26th, 1945)?

200

The difference between a moderated caucus and an unmoderated caucus is this.

What is that a moderated caucus is a time block for moderated and structured speeches and debate, while an unmoderated caucus is an informal discussion?

200
This nation(s) is a city-state member of the UN.

What is Monaco or Singapore?

200

This is a document that contains the resolutions for the problems that a committee wants to solve.

What is a resolution?

200

This is the acronym standing for the Economic and Social Committee, which often is represented in a MUN conference.

What is ECOSOC?

300

The UN has this many member states.

What is 193?

300

Yielding your time refers to this.

What is returning time that has been unused in a speech to the Dias, Chair, or another delegate?

300

This nation(s) is not a member of the UN.

Vatican City, Kosovo, Western Sahara, Taiwan, etc.

300

This term is used to object a resolution.

What is Veto?

300

This is the term used to describe a group of member states, which is often formed in an unmoderated caucus. There can be multiple of these in a committee, and it is required to be in one to submit a resolution.

What is a bloc?

400

These are the P5 member states of the UN.

What are United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China?

400

In a moderated caucus, a "9/45" refers to this type of motion.

What is a 9-minute moderated caucus with a 45-second speaking time allotted for each delegate? 

Bonus: it is encouraged that the proposing delegate creates a topic parameter (ex. "Motion for a 9/45 on Sustainable Engineering").

400

This nation, which is entirely surrounded by another member state, became a member state after achieving its independence in 1966.

What is Lesotho?

400

This is written during an informal session as the preceding version of a potential draft resolution.

What is a Working Paper?

400

This term refers to the adjustment, deletion, or modification of a portion of a resolution. 

What is an amendment?

500

These are the six organs of the UN.

What are the General Assembly, Secretariat, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Economic and Social Council, Security Council, Trusteeship Council (disbanded in 1994)?

500

A Round Robin refers to this.

What is a moderated caucus in which every delegation gives a speech in seating order?

500

This nation(s) is a member of the UN's Small Island Developing States (SIDS). (Name 3)

What is... ? Bahrain, Comoros, Maldive, Sao Tomé and Principe, Singapore, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bisseau, Mauritius, Seychelles, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cubs, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Micronesia (Federated States of), Palau, Samoa, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu. 

500

This is the term used to describe solutions referring to issued raised in a resolution.

What is an Operative Clause?

500

This phrase is used to ask the Dais a question regarding Parliamentary Procedure.

What is a Point of Inquiry?