Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1)  Who was the first woman to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda?

2)  On this date in 1974, Muhammad Ali regained his world title by knocking out this champion.

3)  On this date in 1984, Linda Ronstadt sang the lead role in a New York Shakespeare Festival's production of what opera?

Answers:

1)  Rosa Parks

2)  George Foreman. Foreman won the title again 20 years later.

3)  Ronstadt sang Mimi in an unconventional staging of La Boheme. Critics were underwhelmed. Frank Rich of the New York Times wrote, "Fragile and almost expressionless from the start, Miss Ronstadt's Mimi might as well leap right from her first aria to the death-bed finale."