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Three quarters of Americans can correctly identify two of Snow White's seven dwarfs while only a quarter can name two Supreme Court Justices, according to a poll on pop culture released on Monday...
["Grumpy" and "Dopey" works for either, of course.]
Respondents were far more familiar with the Three Stooges -- Larry, Curly and Moe -- than the three branches of the U.S. government -- judicial, executive and legislative. Seventy-four percent identified the former, 42 percent the latter.
[Criminal ignorance. Does no one recall the unsung genius of Shemp?]
Twice as many people (23 percent) were able to identify the most recent winner of the television talent show "American Idol," Taylor Hicks, as were able to name the Supreme Court Justice confirmed in January 2006, Samuel Alito (11 percent).
— Larry, Sneezy Monkey, Light Reading
Maybe Roberts has more appeal among teens today than Rehnquist did in 1998 but I doubt it. Still, I wonder how many of us could have named the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when we were 15.