Polyglot (book) London, 1669), a monument of industry and erudition even when allowance is made for the fact that for the Arabic he had the great manuscript lexicon compiled and left to the University of Cambridge by William Bedwell. The liberality of Cardinal Ximenes, who is said to have spent half a million ducats on it, removed the "Complutensian" polyglot from the risks of commerce. The other three editions all brought their promoters to the verge of ruin. Subsequent polyglots are of little scholarly importance, the best recent texts having been confined to a single language; but at least into the early
What? (party game) with “What?”. Question 2 is the Personal category where the Questioner fills in the blank with someone's name. The name can be someone playing the game, a famous person that everyone knows, or even a fictional or generic character. Question 3 is a Sticky Situation category where players are faced with predicaments that always end up asking, “What do you do?”. There is one Questioner who reads a question out loud to the group of players. Everyone writes down their answer. Answers can be dead honest truths or outright lies. The Questioner reads all the answers out loud and chooses