Astounding Ignorance

[mrs_overall]

Last night at the quiz, my regular team mates were absent (they had gone to a Gay Rights meeting) so I formed a team with 3 blokes in their 20's. The depth of their ignorance was staggering. A small selection of things they had never heard of includes:
Donald Campbell & Bluebird, The Crimean War, The Boer War, Martina Navratilova, Bobby Moore (they also had no idea we won the 1966 World Cup), Wallis Simpson & Edward VIII, The tv programmes Allo Allo and Porridge, The Magna Carta, the Spinning Jenny, Morse Code, Emily Bronte, Chippendale furniture.....the list goes on.
They gamely had a stab at most questions:
Q Which US president died in 1945? - their answer was Ronald Reagan
Q Leningrad is now known as what? -their answer was Moscow

I ended up doing the quiz single handed and we came a respectable 3rd.
What on earth has happened to education in the days since I left school?

[lardhelmet]

Teams made up of younger people on Eggheads don't seem to as do as well as the more mature teams, even though they are very often all at university studying whatever. When I was their age, my general knowledge was appalling because I just wasn't interested, but I don't think it made me ignorant.