What very massive island is 200 miles northwest of Iceland? Beirut and Tripoli are positioned on the coast of which physique of water? Are you aware the solutions or do you need to discover out?
John Roberts, Fort Collins native and traveler extraordinaire, will host an Worldwide Trivia Evening from 6-7:30 pm on Tuesday, January 31 on the International Village Museum of Arts and Cultures. The enjoyable and pleasant occasion will function 50 questions, with six groups competing for prizes. Mild refreshments might be served.
Admission for museum members and non-members is $10 per particular person and advance reservations are required at globalvillagemuseum.org. Partial groups or full groups of six are welcome with a two-step course of. First, crew members should make particular person reservations. Second, an e-mail with the names of the crew members must be despatched to the Museum’s Outreach Coordinator at outreach@globalvillagemuseum.org. Others will be a part of individuals who test in with out tools the night time of the occasion. Registration will shut at 5 pm on Friday, January 27.
Roberts attended the College of Colorado, American College Faculty of Regulation in Washington DC, and Cornell College in New York. He additionally volunteered within the Peace Corps, serving in Somalia (1964-1966). From 1967 to 1993, Roberts served as a senior US Overseas Service official on the State Division, residing in 19 completely different international locations on each continent besides Antarctica. Languages spoken by Roberts embrace Somali, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Arabic, Spanish, French, Setswana, Malagasy, and Pigin Melanesian.
Roberts returned to the Peace Corps in 1993 because the US Peace Corps Director for Tunisia, Malta and the Solomon Islands. In 1999, Roberts returned to Fort Collins and taught Worldwide Research at CSU for 9 years. He has volunteered with quite a few organizations, from the Rotary Membership of Fort Collins to the American Purple Cross. In 2010, Roberts helped discovered the International Village Museum, the place he continues as a board member and donor.
The International Village Museum is positioned at 200 West Mountain Avenue, and Museum hours are 11 am to five pm, Tuesday by means of Saturday. Common admission is $5 for adults, $three for seniors and college students, $1 for youngsters ages Four-15, and free for youngsters below three. Grownup excursions obtain discounted admission of $three per particular person.
For extra data, go to globalvillagemuseum.org or name 970-221-4600.
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