Gavin Quirk, of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, which commissioned the survey in conjunction with the Royal Astronomical Society, said: "It's a bit of a worry to find that children don't know who the first man on the moon is, let alone that they don't know who led the country to victory in the Second World War.

"And I think it is definitely time to get back to the classroom if our school children think of Mars firstly as a chocolate bar."

irrespective to ignorance that strikes us time & again ..... i think that what is in common for two great men is that both supposed to be able to look on their own "landscape" from "outside".

Well said.