A recent survey done on elementary school students revealed that about one-third of the population thought that Sir Winston Churchill was the first man on the moon, instead of NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong.

The survey, gathering a number of 1,400 students aged 4 to 10, was commissioned by the Royal Astronomical Society, in conjunction with Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.

"It's a bit of a worry to find that children don't know who the first man on the moon is, let a lone that they don't know who led the country to victory in the Second World War," UPI quoted Gavin Quirk, the brand manager for Walt Disney.

Other surprising revelations included four out of ten children thinking that Mars was in fact nothing more than a chocolate bar brand. And three out of ten children thought that the Earth was not officially a planet, according to British newspaper, the Sun.

The survey results were gathered merely months after a previous one revealed that children thought Churchill was merely a character of fiction, in a world where Sherlock Holmes and Eleanor Rigby are real.