QUIZ BEE QUESTIONS ON GEN INFORMATION ON SOCIAL STUDIES

1. QUIZ BOWL

2. 1. When was establishment
date of United Nations?
A. October 23, 1945
B. October 24, 1945
C. October 23, 1946
D. October 24, 1946

3. 2. The United Nations was established on
October 24, 1945. It was established on the
purpose of saving future generations on the
scourge of future wars. How many original
member states composed the United Nations?
A. 45
B. 51
C. 78
D. 97

4. 3. What do you call the non-
member states of the United
Nations ?
A. Outcast
B. Overseer
C. Original Members
D. Observer

5. 4. The term United Nations is originally
used to refer to the countries that are
allied against ______.
A. Triple Entente
B. Axis Powers
C. Allied Powers
D. Triple Alliance

6. 5. What is the principal body for coordination, policy review, policy dialogue and
recommendations on economic, social and environmental issues, as well as
implementation of internationally agreed development goals. This also serves as the
central mechanism for activities of the UN system and its specialized agencies in the
economic, social and environmental fields, supervising subsidiary and expert bodies. It
has 54 Members, elected by the General Assembly for overlapping three-year terms. It
is the United Nations’ central platform for reflection, debate, and innovative thinking on
sustainable development?
A. The Economic and Social Council
B. The Security Council
C. The Trusteeship Council
D. The International Court of Justice

7. 6. The following are permanent
members of the United Nations
except:
A. China
B. Philippines
C. Russia
D. United States of America

8. 7. What power does the permanent
members posses which other non-
permanent members don’t
exercise?
A. Voting power
B. Opposing power
C. Veto Power
D. Certiorari

9. 8. What does UNICEF stands
for?
A. United Nation’s Child’s Fund
B. United Nations Childs Fund
C. United Nations Children’s Fund
D. United Nations Childrens Fund

10. 9. The flag and emblem of the
United Nations stands for ____.
A. It speaks for the people’s hopes and dreams of peace and unity.
B. It speaks for the people’s hopes for amity.
C. It speaks for the people’s hopes for solidarity.
D. All of the above.

11. 10. Each Member State may be represented by
one person on each Main Committee - there are
six in total - and on any other committee that
may be established upon which all Member
States have the right to be represented. What is
the Fifth Committee of the United Nations?
A. Disarmament and International Security
B. Administrative and Budgetary
C. Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural
D. Special Political and Decolinization

12. AVERAGE ROUND

13. 1. Who is the secretary general
of the United Nations as of
January 1, 2017?
Answer : Antonio Guterres

14. 2. What is the main deliberative,
policy making, and
representative organ of the
United Nations?
Answer: General Assembly

15. 3. What is the date of admission
of the Philippines as a member
state of the United Nations?
October 24, 1945

16. 4. Filipinos were known for their
intelligence across the world. In the General
Assembly of the United Nations, a Filipino
diplomat served as its president in 1949-
1950. Who was he?
Carlos P. Romulo

17. 5. Last October 22- 28, the UN Assistant Secretary General
visited the Philippines. While she was in the country, she
handed over equipment that are meant to help local
communities in Mindanao to support sustainable livelihoods.
What is the name if the UN Assistant Secretary General who
visited the country?
UN Assistant Secretary-General Kanni Wignaraja

18. 6. Give at least one of the first six
countries that composed the first
ever security council in 1946?
Possible answers: Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Poland, Egypt, and The
Netherlands

19. 7. The first UN peacekeeping mission was
authorized in 1948. today (in 2006) it’s also the
longest running mission of the UN. With which
conflict is it concerned?
Israeli/ Palestine

20. 8. Who is the US president who
inspired the creation of the
United Nations?
Franklin D. Roosevelt

21. 9. After which major war the
United Nations Charter
established?
World War II

22. 10. Before the creation of United Nations,
there was an effort to prevent the spark of
World War II through the creation of ____.
League of Nations

23. DIFFICULT ROUND

24. 1. Based on the United Nations
Charter, Chapter 1. Give at least
one of the purposes of the UN.
1.To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for
the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other
breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of
justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might
lead to a breach of the peace;
2.To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-
determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;
3.To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural,
or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for
fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and
4.To be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.

25. 2. The original Members of the United
Nations shall be the states which, having
participated in the United Nations
Conference on International Organization in
what city of the United States of America?
San Francisco, California

26. 3. “A Member of the United Nations which has
persistently violated the Principles contained in the
present Charter may be expelled from the
Organization by the General Assembly upon the
recommendation of the Security Council.”
What specific article of the United Nations Charter can
you find the above passages?
Article VI/ 6

27. 4. Which UN organization has a flag
that contains a variation of the Athens’
and Parthenon above and below the
initials of the organization upon a blue
background?
UNESCO( United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization)

28. 5. What year were ethe number
of seats in the security council
increased from 6 to 10?
1966

29. 6. The Philippines and China have a long dispute of
territory. It concerns the Spratly islands located on
either the West Philippine Sea/ South China Sea. What
UN organization governs the resolution of the conflict
mentioned above?
UNCLOS/ United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

30. 7. At the beginning of
“Operation Iraqi Freedom”, how
many member nations did the
UN have?
191

31. 8. As of 2005, which continent was
‘host’ to the majority of ongoing UN
peacekeeping missions?
Africa

32. 9. Who was the first ever
secretary- general of the United
Nations?
Trygve Lie of Norway

33. 10. What disease was eradicated in the year
1980, which was led by the World Health
Organization , a UN agency, after 13 years of
immunization? This was considered as one of
the top 5 achievements of the United Nations.
Small Pox