2022 Parliamentary Procedure Quiz

The quorum of an assembly is:

• Two-thirds (2/3) of the members present at a meeting.

• The largest number that can be depended on to attend any meeting.

• The number of members who must be present for business to be legally transacted.

• The number of members who always vote on motions brought before the assembly.

If the motion to Postpone Indefinitely is adopted, what happens to the pending main motion?

• An ad hoc committee studies it and reports back at the next regular meeting.

• It is brought back under the heading of Unfinished Business at the next regular meeting.

• It is killed for the duration of the session.

• It is automatically passed without debate.

The motion to Lay on the Table is commonly misused in meetings in the place of the motion to:

• Adjourn

• Postpone to a Certain Time

• Reconsider

• Commit (or Refer)

If a motion to adjourn is qualified in any way (example: "I move we adjourn in 10 minutes"), it is classified as a(an):

• Main motion.

• Privileged motion.

• Subsidiary motion.

• Incidental motion.

The motion to Raise a Question of Privilege takes precedence over all the motions below except the motion to:

• Amend

• Commit (or Refer)

• Limit Debate

• Recess

Which motion below would you use to obtain the chairman’s opinion on a matter related to parliamentary procedure as it relates to the pending business?

• Parliamentary Question of Privilege.

• Point of Parliamentary Information.

• Parliamentary Inquiry.

• Parliamentary Authority Opinion.

Which one of the following motions is debatable?

• Raise a Question of Privilege.

• Previous Question.

• The privileged motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn.

• Postpone Indefinitely.

The privileged motion to Call for the Orders of the Day is used primarily to:

• Order the chairman to take an immediate recess.

• Require that a meeting conform to its agenda.

• Indicate to members when a point of order may be called.

• Write orders for all committees to complete their tasks by a specific time.

Motions that assist the assembly in treating or disposing of a main motion are called:

• Main motions.

• Subsidiary motions.

• Incidental motions.

• Privileged motions.

With a main motion and an amendment pending, which of the following motions would be out of order?

• Lay on the Table.

• Recess.

• Postpone Indefinitely.

• Refer to a Committee.