This assumes the people answering the poll weren't taking the piss out of the pollsters...
--- Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> LONDON (AFP) — Britons are losing their grip on
> reality, according to a poll
> out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think
> Winston Churchill was a
> myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was
> real.
>
> The survey found that 47 percent thought the 12th
> century English king Richard
> the Lionheart was a myth.
>
> And 23 percent thought World War II prime minister
> Churchill was made up. The
> same percentage thought Crimean War nurse Florence
> Nightingale did not actually
> exist.
>
> Three percent thought Charles Dickens, one of
> Britain's most famous writers, is
> a work of fiction himself.
>
> Indian political leader Mahatma Gandhi and Battle of
> Waterloo victor the Duke
> of Wellington also appeared in the top 10 of people
> thought to be myths.
>
> Meanwhile, 58 percent thought Sir Arthur Conan
> Doyle's fictional detective
> Holmes actually existed; 33 percent thought the same
> of W. E. Johns' fictional
> pilot and adventurer Biggles.
>
> UKTV Gold television surveyed 3,000 people.
>
>
> http://www.iww.org.au/node/10
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