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Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan

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