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
Who Knows? (game show) Who Knows? (game show) Who Knows? is a Canadian television panel game quiz show which aired on CBC Television in 1959. James Bannerman hosted this show in which a panel attempts to guess the identity of an artifact from a gallery or museum. Archaeologists Walter Kenyon and John Lunn of the Royal Ontario Museum were regular panelists who were joined by a third guest panelist. This concept was previously demonstrated during some episodes of "Tabloid". CBC broadcast a similar panel game quiz program, "What on Earth", from 1971 to 1975. This half-hour series was broadcast on Fridays at 9 p.m.