In a recent Zogby poll 74% of people could correctly identify the Three Stooges but only 42% could correctly identify the three branches of U. S. Government.

60% could identify the home planet of Superman but only 37% could identify the planet closest to our sun.

77% could identify two of the Seven Dwarfs but only 24% could identify two of the Nine Supreme Court Justices.

However, 53% knew what the abbreviation C.S.I. stood for while 60% knew what C.I.A. meant.

I feel no need to comment further on this data, but perhaps you do.