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Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan

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I am the (1)________ model of a modern Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the kings of England
And I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm (2)______________ with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With (3)________ cheerful facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
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I'm very good at integral and (4)________________________ calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in (5)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (6)____________ Major-General
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I know our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the (7)____________ of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard (8)________ and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of which I've heard the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And (9)______________ all the airs
From that (10)________________ nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
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In fact
When I know what is (11)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (12)__________ a Mauser (13)__________ (14)________ a javelin
When such (15)______________ as sorties
And surprises I'm more (16)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (17)________ learnt
What progress has been (18)________ in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
(Oh, that's a hard one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has (19)__________ sat a-gee
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm (20)____________ and adventury
Has (21)________ been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
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(One more time?!)
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In fact
When I know what is (22)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (23)________ at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I (24)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (25)________ learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (26)____________________ of (27)__________________ strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never rode a horse!
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (28)______________ down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (29)____________ Major-General!
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Answers:
(1) very(2) teeming(3) many(4) differential(5) matters(6) modern(7) crimes(8) Dows(9) whistle(10) infernal(11) meant(12) sight(13) rifle(14) from(15) affairs(16) wary(17) have(18) made(19) never(20) plucky(21) only(22) meant(23) tell(24) know(25) have(26) smattering(27) elemental(28) brought(29) modern