Quarter of Brits Think Churchill Was Myth

Just so you don't think Americans are the only people who have no clue when it comes to their history, a recent survey found a fair number of British people believe that Churchill, Charles Dickens, and Mahatma Gandhi were fictional characters. Who made the "real people" list? Over half the people asked thought Sherlock Holmes was real. Many people were surprised to find out that The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was not a documentary.

This site from UKTV has the full statistics

[lalena]

http://uktv.co.uk/gold/stepbystep/aid/598605 [uktv.co.uk]

Idle crap

[smittyoneeach]

What if the people taking the quiz think it pure idle crap and afford it retarded answers?

Is that so?

[Bogtha]

Many people were surprised to find out that The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was not a documentary.

This is not mentioned in the article, nor in the article from the source of this survey, UKTV Gold [uktv.co.uk]. So where did this claim come from?

Quite frankly, I don't trust UKTV Gold to run a survey properly, especially when they class Mona Lisa [wikipedia.org] and Lady Godiva [wikipedia.org] as "fictional characters".