Year in Stupid 2008: International
England -- A poll of Britons found widespread confusion as to who is real and who is fiction. About 25 percent thought Winston Churchill never existed; many believed Charles Dickens and Walter Raleigh were fictional too. An equal number thought Sherlock Holmes and Eleanor Rigby were real people. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flashes a victory sign as spectators cheer his June 25, 1954 arrival at National Airport in Washington. AP File
