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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 (1)__________ 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 (2)____________________ equations, (3)________ the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With (4)________ cheerful facts
About the (5)____________ 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 (6)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
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I (7)________ 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 crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus
From The (8)__________ 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 infernal nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can (10)__________ a washing bill in (11)__________________ cuneiform
And tell you (12)__________ detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in (13)______________ 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 sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (14)__________________ I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of (15)______________ (16)________ 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 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 modern Major-General
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(One (17)________ time?!)
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In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (18)__________ (19)________ a javelin
When (20)________ affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more (21)________ at
And (22)________ I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (23)________________ has (24)________ made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (25)____________________ of elemental 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 (26)________ brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in (27)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
(1) kings(2) understand(3) both(4) many(5) square(6) matters(7) know(8) Frogs(9) whistle(10) write(11) Babylonic(12) every(13) matters(14) surprises(15) tactics(16) than(17) more(18) rifle(19) from(20) such(21) wary(22) when(23) progress(24) been(25) smattering(26) been(27) matters