I wonder, if we were to go back to April 1935, what would be the percentage of people who would have a basic knowledge of the events 70 years earlier, as the Civil War ended? Would the polled make similar errors, proclaiming, say, Theodore Roosevelt as the President instead of Lincoln, or perhaps as the top Union General instead of Grant? Would they know that the surrender occurred at Appomattox, or how many would think it was at Gettysburg, or Atlanta?
People were not always as apathetic and ignorant as young people are nowadays.
They used by be way more educated and well-read compared to the VD-ridden kids today.
People in 1935 were educated in history - so, YES, they’d have gotten the right answers at least 80% of the time.