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Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan

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I am the very (1)__________ of a modern Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I (2)________ 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 teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With (3)________ (4)________________ 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 matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
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I know our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I (6)____________ hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In (7)____________ I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I (8)________ 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 whistle all the airs
From (9)________ infernal nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill in (10)__________________ cuneiform
And (11)________ you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (12)__________ 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 surprises I'm more (13)________ at
And (14)________ 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 tactics than a (15)____________ in a nunnery
In short, (16)________ I've a smattering of (17)__________________ strategy
(Oh, that's a hard one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a (18)____________ 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 (19)______________ 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 meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more (20)________ at
And (21)________ 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 tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (22)________ I've a smattering of (23)__________________ 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 brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in (24)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (25)________ model of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
(1) model(2) know(3) many(4) cheerful(5) square(6) answer(7) conics(8) know(9) that(10) Babylonic(11) tell(12) model(13) wary(14) when(15) novice(16) when(17) elemental(18) better(19) matters(20) wary(21) when(22) when(23) elemental(24) matters(25) very