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What is a point of personal privilege?
This point is used to inform the chairperson of a physical discomfort a delegate is experiencing, such as the inability to hear another delegate’s speech.
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What is the International Court of Justice?
The main judicial arm of the UN
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What are the preambulatory clauses?
In a resolution, this section precedes the operative clauses.
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What is Switzerland?
This is the only country with a square flag
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What is a point of information?
After a delegate has given a speech in formal debate, he or she may yield time to these, or questions from other delegates concerning the speech.
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What is UNICEF?
This body was created by the United Nations General Assembly on 11 December 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children and mothers in countries that had been devastated by World War II.
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What is simple majority?
a majority in which the highest number of votes cast for any one candidate, issue, or item exceeds the second-highest number, while not constituting an absolute majority.
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What is ketchup?
This was sold in the 1830s as medicine
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What is a point of inquiry?
When the floor is open (i.e., no other delegate is speaking), a delegate may raise one of these in order to ask the chairperson a question regarding the rules of procedure.
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What is the Security Council?
The only body that has the power to impose economic sanctions on a country
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What is the UN Declaration of Human Rights?
This document has 30 articles about respecting the namesake rights
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What is An Unexpected Journey?
This is the name of the first Hobbit movie
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What is a Signatory?
A country that wishes a draft resolution to be put on the floor and signs the draft resolution to accomplish this.
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What is the General Assembly?
The only committee in the United Nations that can grant membership to a nation
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What is move onto voting procedure?
This happens when the committee reaches the bottom of the General's Speaker Speech list
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What is six
This is the number of episodes in the last season of Game of Thrones
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What is a Sponsor?
These are the countries that write resolutions and no one pays attention to the limits in how many countries can hold this title.
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What is 1948?
The year in which the UN Declaration of Human Rights was adopted
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What are the U.S., China, France, Russia, and Great Britain?
The five countries in the UN with veto power
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What is Captain America: The First Avenger?
This is the fifth installment of the MCU
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