Real events some people believe never took place
Battle of the Bulge 52 per cent
Battle of Little Big Horn Scene of Custer’s last stand – 48 per cent
Hundred Years’ War 44 per cent
Cold War – 32 per cent
Battle of Hastings, 15 per cent
Fictional characters who we believe were real
King Arthur , mythical monarch of the Round Table – 57 per cent
Robin Hood – 27 per cent
Conan the Barbarian – 5 per cent
Richard Sharpe , fictional cad and warrior – 3 per cent
Edmund Blackadder – 1 per cent
Xena Warrior Princess – 1 per cent
Fictional events that we believe did take place
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
Funambulism 