Political I.Q. — Week of June 21

Test your knowledge of politics.

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  • 03/02/2023
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QUESTIONS:
1. The nation has said farewell to Ronald Reagan through a magnificent state funeral in Washington. Who was the last President to have a full state funeral in the Nation's Capital?

2. Prior to the funeral, Mr. Reagan lay in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Who were the only three people who were neither Presidents nor generals to lie in state there?

3. Who was the first President to have a full state funeral in Washington?

4. Prior to Mr. Reagan, who was the last former President to die?

5. The riderless horse in the funeral procession to the Capitol has the same name as the horse in President Kennedy's funeral procession in 1963. Can you name him?

ANSWERS:
1. Lyndon B. Johnson in 1973.

2. J. Edgar Hoover in 1971 and Capitol Hill Police Officers Jacob Crutcher and John Gibson, who had been killed by a gunman breaking into the Capitol, in 1998.

3. Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

4. Richard M. Nixon in 1974.

5. "Black Jack."

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