What is it called when a person has an answer for everything?
What is it called when a person has an answer for everything? A pantomath is a person who wants to know or knows everything. In theory, a pantomath is not to be confused with a polymath in its less strict sense, much less with the related but very different terms philomath and know-it-all. Why does he have an answer for everything? The “answer to everything” has been associated with men since the beginning of time. As social creatures, men naturally respond with an answer to everything from Apes to Zimas. Even when a question is not being asked, men seem...