Somehow I think the poll may have not been exactly truthful - unless they asked a bunch of seven year-olds:
War of the Worlds , Martian invasion - 6 per cent
Battle of Helms Deep , Rings Trilogy - The Two Towers - 3 per cent
Battle of Endor , The Return of the Jedi - 2 per cent
Planet of the Apes , the apes rule Earth - 1 per cent
Battlestar Galactica , the defeat of humanity by cyborgs - 1 per cent
But in agreement with the article, Britain is most certainly becoming dumber. Our basic education has been going down the crapper since the abolition of grammar schools by Labour decades ago. Higher education (6th forms and technical colleges) was dealt a blow a few years back with the abolition of 'A' Levels and replaced with a ghastly 'AS' system which caused nothing but a bureaucratic mess. As for universities, they are rapidly becoming in-and-out processing farms where the objective isn't to give students any practical skills, but to see how many footnotes and references they can insert into their reports and essays.
