Runde 803

HF803 - The very Model of a Modern Major-General

Trådtittelen er et sitat fra "The Major-General's Song", den mest kjente sangen i Gilbert og Sullivans komiske opera "The Pirates of Penzance" fra 1879:

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 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,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

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.

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 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 Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

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 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 tactics than a novice in a nunnery –
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy –
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.

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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43 oppgaver, 575 innlegg, 10 poengtagere.

Startet av: Artaxerxes 10.10.18 10:15

Vunnet av: Artaxerxes, slutt 25.10.18 12:10

Sluttstilling:

10: Artaxerxes
9:
8: djsturm
7: ElvishPresley
6: Boccherini, Kalle73
5:
4:
3:
2: gurglebassen
1: 1769, Andropov, franzsigel, McLovin

Oppgaver:

Oppgave	Løsning	Oppgavegiver	Oppgaveløser
1	Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley	Artaxerxes	djsturm
2	Major Downes	djsturm	gurglebassen
3	Frederick Joseph Loftus-Tottenham	gurglebassen	djsturm
4	Walter Model	djsturm	Andropov
5	Ballard Berkeley	Andropov	McLovin
6	Hans Bille	McLovin	Kalle73
7	Paul von Hase, Dietrich Bonhoeffer	Kalle73	Boccherini
8	Karl-Günther von Hase	Boccherini	ElvishPresley
9	Laura Ingalls Wilder, John L. Burns	ElvishPresley	Kalle73
10	Sterling Price, James Henry Lane	Kalle73	franzsigel
11	Pierre Trudeau	franzsigel	Artaxerxes
12	Edward Shepherd Creasy	Artaxerxes	ElvishPresley
13	Emilio Salgari	ElvishPresley	Artaxerxes
14	Alfred Carlton Gilbert, John O'Sullivan	Artaxerxes	ElvishPresley
15	Michael von Sundt	ElvishPresley	Artaxerxes
16	David S. Stanley	Artaxerxes	Kalle73
17	Wager Swayne, Noah Haynes Swayne	Kalle73	gurglebassen
18	Denise Prell	gurglebassen	Artaxerxes
19	Ewald Christian von Kleist	Artaxerxes	Boccherini
20	Hans-Ulrich Back	Boccherini	djsturm
21	Major Rohde Hawkins	djsturm	Artaxerxes
22	Bob Newhart	Artaxerxes	ElvishPresley
23	Tom Major-Ball	ElvishPresley	Boccherini
24	William C. Lee	Boccherini	Artaxerxes
25	Richard D'Oyly Carte, George Grossmith	Artaxerxes	Kalle73
26	Galusha Pennypacker	Kalle73	Boccherini
27	Prince Constantine of Imereti	Boccherini	djsturm
28	Aud Schønemann	djsturm	Boccherini
29	Lisa Fonssagrives	Boccherini	djsturm
30	Daniel "Hurricane" Gilbert	djsturm	Kalle73
31	Hussein Kulmiye Afrah	Kalle73	ElvishPresley
32	Gilbert Murray	ElvishPresley	djsturm
33	Maria Branwell	djsturm	Artaxerxes
34	Alphonse Bertillon	Artaxerxes	Kalle73
35	Peter II, Count of Savoy	Kalle73	Artaxerxes
36	Richard av Cornwall	Artaxerxes	ElvishPresley
37	Rahmah ibn Jabir Al Jalhami	ElvishPresley	Artaxerxes
38	Edmund Clerihew Bentley	Artaxerxes	djsturm
39	Alessandro Scarlatti	djsturm	Boccherini
40	John Hicks, Alvin Hansen	Boccherini	djsturm
41	John Maynard Keynes	djsturm	ElvishPresley
42	Harry Kane	ElvishPresley	1769
43	Gustavus Woodson Smith	1769	Artaxerxes

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