Step work & Inventory
NA Traditions & Concepts
Recovery Slang
Big Book
Not AA but AA
100

This step reads: 'Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.'



What is Step Two?

Correct answer 1000

If stolen 1500

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

100

This tradition states that personal recovery depends on unity, and that common welfare should come first.


Only the person who picked can answer with no help from their team

What is Tradition One?

Correct answer 500

Incorrect answer 300 to the other team

NA Basic Text, Tradition One

100



This is the term for the regular meeting, usually attended weekly, that a member considers their main group.



What is a home group?

Correct answer 500

If stolen 1000

General AA/NA culture

100

This opening chapter is Bill W.'s personal account of his drinking and his path to recovery.


What is 'Bill's Story'?

Correct answer 1000

If stolen 2000

Alcoholics Anonymous (the Big Book), Chapter 1

100

This man escaped slavery and became a leading abolitionist, orator, and writer, and published an autobiography 


Who is Frederick Douglass?


200

This step calls for making a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.


What is Step Four?

Correct answer 600

If stolen 1000

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

200

This tradition holds that for the group purpose there is but one ultimate authority, expressed through group conscience.

Only the person who picked can answer with no help from their team

What is Tradition Two?

Correct answer 600

Incorrect 200 to the other team

NA Basic Text, Tradition Two


200



This term describes someone who is sober but still exhibits the thinking patterns and behaviors of active addiction.



What is a 'dry drunk'?

Correct answer 600

If stolen 1200

General AA/NA culture


200

Written by a physician, this chapter presents the medical view of alcoholism as an illness.


What is 'The Doctor's Opinion'?

Right answer 1800

Wrong answer 1000 to the other team

Alcoholics Anonymous (the Big Book)


200

This scientist and inventor developed hundreds of uses for the peanut and sweet potato while teaching at Tuskegee Institute.


Who is George Washington Carver?

General knowledge — no literature source


300

This step involves admitting to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.


What is Step Five?

Correct answer 900

If stolen 1200

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

300

This tradition states each group has but one primary purpose: to carry the message to the addict who still suffers.

⚠ STEAL: If answered incorrectly, the other team steals the points.

What is Tradition Five?

NA Basic Text, Tradition Five


Only the person who picked can answer with no help from their team

What is Tradition Five?

Correct answer 900

Incorrect answer 300 to the other team

NA Basic Text, Tradition Five

300

This is the common term for the low point that leads a person to finally seek help.


What is 'rock bottom' (a bottom)?

Correct answer 600

If stolen 900

General AA/NA culture

300

This chapter lays out the recovery process and includes the well-known line that half measures availed nothing.


What is 'How It Works'?

Right answer 1500

Wrong answer 2100 to the other team

300


This mathematician's orbital trajectory calculations at NASA were personally requested by John Glenn before his 1962 spaceflight; her story was later told in the film "Hidden Figures."

Who is Katherine Johnson?

General knowledge — no literature source


Who is Katherine Johnson?

General knowledge — no literature source

400

This step is about becoming entirely ready to have a Higher Power remove all our defects of character.



What is Step Six?

Correct answer 800

Incorrect answer  400 to the other team

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

400

This tradition warns groups never to endorse, finance, or lend the fellowship's name to any related facility or outside enterprise.

Only the person who picked can answer with no help from their team

What is Tradition Six?

Correct answer 800 

Incorrect answer 400 to the other team

NA Basic Text, Tradition Six

400



This is the term for a personal story shared at a speaker meeting, covering what it was like, what happened, and what it's like now.



What is a qualification (or lead)?

Correct answer 1200

If stolen 2000

General AA/NA culture

400

This chapter is addressed directly to the spouses and family members of alcoholics.


What is 'To Wives'?

Right answer 2000

Wrong answer 2800 to the other team

Alcoholics Anonymous (the Big Book)


400

This poet and civil rights activist wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at a 1993 presidential inauguration.


Who is Maya Angelou?

General knowledge — no literature source


500

This step involves humbly asking a Higher Power to remove our shortcomings.


What is Step Seven?

Correct answer 1500

If stolen 2000

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions


500

This tradition states that every group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.


Only the person who picked can answer with no help from their team

Step 7

Correct answer 2000

Incorrect answer 1000 to the other team

NA Basic Text, Tradition Seven

500

This slang term describes gritting your way through cravings through sheer willpower alone, without leaning on the program.


What is 'white-knuckling' it?

General AA/NA culture

⚠ ZERO OUT: If answered incorrectly, that team's score resets to zero.


500

This appendix, added to later editions of the Big Book, discusses the psychic change members experience in recovery.


What is 'Spiritual Experience' (Appendix II)?

Right answer 2000

Wrong answer 2500 to the other team 

Alcoholics Anonymous (the Big Book), Appendix II


500

This surgeon performed one of the first successful open-heart surgeries in the United States in 1893 and founded Provident Hospital, one of the nation's first Black-owned hospitals.



Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?

General knowledge — no literature source

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