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I had this experience when I visited Madame Tussauds in London for the first time after about 20 years and I was like : "Who are all these people?".

What I remembered was a good mixture of artists and scientists from different epochs. Now they have crammed a few scientists in a dusty corner and the rest of the museum is full of people I don't recognize.

That's why it is called POPULAR culture, because that's what the majority of people know.

That’s true, but this is culture as defined by Internet traffic, which is pretty reasonable. Everyone knows a lot about the aspects of culture they care about, by definition, so it doesn’t make much sense to have a test for that.