The set of rules that allows for a majority ruling, minority being heard, the handling of one item at a time, and maintaining order
What is Parliamentary Procedure?
100
A point being argued for in a speech
What is a Contention?
100
The means of introducing business to a meeting
What is the definition of a Main Motion?
100
A motion that corrects ill-advised actions
What are Incidental Motions?
100
Voice, visual, ballot, rollcall, and mechanical device
What are the ways to vote on a motion?
200
A formal Proposal looking for a certain action to be take place
What is a Motion?
200
The point where attention of meeting should be focused
What is The Floor?
200
Phrase used to start main motion
What is "I Move..."
200
The amount of priviledged motions
What is 5?
200
Person who must be elected and must maintain order
Who is the chairman?
300
4 minutes, 3 minutes, 2 minutes (which time limits apply to which sections of the debate)
What are the lengths of constructive (4), rebuttal (3), and cross examinations (2)?
300
Voting where the most votes received, but not always simple majority
What is Plurality?
300
The things that are required for a main motion
What are second and debatable?
300
a subsidary motion that requires a second, is non debatable, non amendable, and needs 2/3 vote
What is a call for previous question?
300
The three types of legislation; three types of committees to serve on (they are the same thing)
What are Foreign, Domestic, and Economic Affairs?
400
The 5 types of motions
What are main, privileged, subsidiary, incidental, and unclassified?
400
Discussion relevant to the main motion
What is Germane?
400
Ways to stop a main motion forever or for a certain period of time
What are Previous Question, motion to table, postpone definitely, postpone indefinitely
400
Daily Double! Wager all or some of your current points on this question, or just skip and do the question like normal. Don't look at question until decision is made. Question is in parenthesis.
"The name of a motion that kills a motion without a direct vote"
What is postpone indefinitely?
400
The amount of taps on the gavel for a call to order
What is 2 taps?
500
The person who invented the rules followed within student Congress
Who is Henry M. Robert?
500
The amount of members required to have a meeting (its a word,not a number)
What is a Quorum?
500
Main motions that brings a new subject to the table usually takes these two forms
What are resolutions and bills?
500
The limit of the amount of amendments that can be considered at one time
What is 2?
500
The type of voting needed to eliminate members rights in some way