World Organizations
70 Questions
World Organizations MCQs — Practice & Prepare
✅ Correct answer: San Francisco
The United Nations was founded at a conference in San Francisco in 1945.
✅ Correct answer: Trygve Lie
Trygve Lie of Norway served as the first Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1946.
✅ Correct answer: New York
The United Nations headquarters is located in New York City.
✅ Correct answer: 5
The United Nations has five active principal organs (the Trusteeship Council, its sixth, has ceased operations): the General Assembly, Security Council, ECOSOC, ICJ, and the Secretariat.
✅ Correct answer: Hague
The International Court of Justice sits at The Hague, Netherlands.
✅ Correct answer: Vienna
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
✅ Correct answer: China, France, USSR, UK and USA
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council are China, France, Russia (formerly USSR), the UK, and the USA.
✅ Correct answer: Rome
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is headquartered in Rome, Italy.
✅ Correct answer: UNFPA
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) is the UN body focused on population issues.
✅ Correct answer: New York
The UN General Assembly's offices are located at UN Headquarters in New York.
✅ Correct answer: The Trusteeship Council
The Trusteeship Council effectively completed its mandate and ceased regular operations once all trust territories achieved self-government.
✅ Correct answer: Vienna
✅ Correct answer: every month
The presidency of the UN Security Council rotates monthly among its members, in English alphabetical order.
✅ Correct answer: International Labour Organisation
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is a UN specialized agency, not one of the UN's chief/principal organs.
✅ Correct answer: ASEAN
ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) is a separate regional bloc and is not a UN-affiliated agency, unlike the ILO or WHO.
✅ Correct answer: children
The UN's 1990 International Convention (the Convention on the Rights of the Child) relates to children's rights.
✅ Correct answer: 1974
The UN General Assembly adopted the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States in 1974.
✅ Correct answer: Trusteeship Council
The Trusteeship Council is the UN organ that has ceased operations, having completed its decolonization mandate in 1994.
✅ Correct answer: Geneva
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
✅ Correct answer: International Committee of the Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an independent humanitarian organization, not a UN specialized agency.
