Well he was according to 1% of British schoolchildren, with a more concerning one in seven believing him to have invented gravity in 1650. A survey of 2,000 nine to fifteen year olds across the UK, which was carried out by the veteran’s charity Erskine, also revealed that two in five youngsters don’t know when Remembrance Day is (a staggering number of adults don’t either).
Of notable concern interest :
15% of young Britons believe Auschwitz to be a World War Two based theme park.
9% that the Somme is a river in Germany where Hitler met his death.
12% are of the opinion that the symbol of Remembrance Day is the McDonald’s Golden Arches.
5% think the trigger for the Second World War was Hitler insulting Churchill’s wife.
6% that the Holocaust was a celebration marking the end of the war.
11% hold that the SS refers to Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven.
26% claim a nuclear bomb was dropped on Pearl Harbour.
And last but by no means least, 15% take the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan to have depicted the invasion of Baghdad.
If you want the full results (brace yourselves):
http://www.erskine.org.uk/assets/docs/survey.pdf
