96% of British teenagers (according to a recent poll) believe that Cleopatra was a real historical person. That sounds pretty good ... but are they thinking of the Egyptian queen or Elizabeth Taylor?
If, as I suspect, the latter, she's in good company.
Top fictional characters that British teens think are real
- 1) King Arthur – 65%
- 2) Sherlock Holmes – 58%
- 3) Robin Hood – 51%
- 4) Eleanor Rigby – 47%
- 5) Mona Lisa -35%
- 6) Dick Turpin – 34%
- 7) Biggles – 33%
False!
23% believe that Winston Churchill is a fictional character.Top historical figures that British teens think are myths
1) Richard the Lionheart – 47%
2) Winston Churchill – 23%
3) Florence Nightingale – 23%
4) Bernard Montgomery – 6%
5) Boudicca - 5%
6) Sir Walter Raleigh – 4%
7) Duke of Wellington - 4%
Never in the field of human ignorance has so little been known about so much.
Eleanor Rigby was real. Her grave is in the yard of the church where John Lennon and Paul McCartney met. I have been there and have pictures.
ReplyDeleteDick Turpin, fictional character ... says who?! :-)
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't dare argue with an emperor but is the Dick Turpin we know about any more 'real' than Eleanor Rigby? That is the question in my next post: http://judithweingarten.blogspot.com/2008/02/eleanor-rigby-is-real.html
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think?