Proverbial Verbs
States by Counties
Essay Test
Middle "I"
Holidays & Observances
100

"If it ain't broke, don't ____ it"

fix

100

St. Louis, Ste. Genevieve

Missouri 

100

"Two essays written in 1842 and 1844" by this man laid "the foundations of the origin of species"

Darwin

100

To tell a trivial lie  

fib

100

A 1952 bill designated September 17 as Citizenship Day to coincide with the 1787 signing of this

the Constitution 

200

"____ not, want not"

waste

200

Palm Beach,
Pasco

Florida

200

In this essay, Virginia Woolf said that a woman must have money & the title place "if she is to write fiction"

A Room of One's Own
200

A type of broom, or an egg beater

Whisk

200

Taking place about 6 weeks before Easter, this day begins a season of fasting & prayer

Ash Wednesday 
300

"He who ____ last, ____ longest"

laughs

300

Boulder,
Baca

Colorado

300

In the 12th of these essays, Alexander Hamilton argued for "The Utility of the Union In Respect to Revenue"

Federalist Papers

300

Instinctive knowledge or belief; "woman's" is said to be keen

intuition

300

On this day in 1996 Taco Bell announced it had bought the Liberty Bell & was going to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell

April Fools' Day

400

"____ what you preach"

practice
400

Apache,
Yuma

Arizona

400

Camus wrote the philosophical essay "The Myth of" him, punished to roll a stone uphill only to have it roll down again

Sisyphus 

400

Preaching often accompanies this evangelical assembly

revival 
400

President Harding honored this British woman by endorsing her birthday, May 12, to be Natl. Hospital Day

Florence Nightengale

500

"Curses, like chickens, come home to ____"

roost

500

Missoula,
Mineral

Montana

500

This transcendentalist preached the ethics of "Self-Reliance" in an essay with that title

(Ralph Waldo) Emerson

500

This official rebuke or censure is often quite severe

Reprimand

500

Technically, June 17 in Massachusetts should be called Breed's Hill Day instead of this

Bunker Hill Day

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