Big Book
What page can you find the famous AA paragraph beginning "Acceptance is the answer?"
Page 417
The most number of pages in the Big Book are devoted to this step.
Step one
Referred to often as the co-author of the Big Book. For extra points, what is the group of people referred to as who helped developed and edit the Big Book?
Dr. Bob. The first 100. (Award 50 points if only one question answered correctly).
Bill & Dr. Bob were originally members of this group before they founded AA?
The Oxford Group.
What year was the first edition of NA's basic test published?
1983.
What page in the Big Book talks about sexual inventory?
Page 69
The least number of pages in the Big Book are spent on these 2 steps.
Steps 6 & 7
A wartime friend of Bill's, visited an inebriated Bill when he had 3 months of sobriety. What was his name?
Ibby Thatcher
What year was AA founded and where? (Hint: This was before the first publication of the Big Book).
1935, Akron, Ohio. (Award 100 if answered only 1 correct).
What year was NA founded and where?
1953, California. (Award 100 points if only one question answered correctly).
From the chapter "Working with Others." Finish this phrase; "Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure our immunity from drinking as _______"
"...intensive work with other alcoholics."
What do many believe is the main difference between a "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening?" For 100 extra points, where in the book can you find the most detailed information about a "spiritual experience."
"Experience" is the initial experience sufficient to recover from alcoholism, "awakening" is a result of working all 12 steps. The most detailed info about "the experience" can be found in appendix 2.
In the famous AA picture, seen in some meeting rooms which depicts Bill & Bob talking to a man in a hospital bed, who is the man in the bed?
Bill Dotson (also considered AA's 3rd member)
What year did Bill die and of what?
1971. People can answer Emphysema or Pneumonia for the 2nd question. (Award 150 points if only one question is answered correctly).
What was the very first NA text called and what year was it printed?
The Little Yellow Booklet, 1954. (Award 150 points if only one question answered correctly).
When the big book talks about "this new and triumphant arc for which we step through to freedom, which step is considered "the keystone" in this arc?
Step 3
The prayer of St. Francis can be found in the "12 & 12" in the chapter devoted to this step.
Step 11
What did Bill Wilson do for a living? What did Dr. Bob do?
New York City stockbroker. Proctologist. (Award 200 points if only one question answered correctly).
What is the full name of the man who founded Narcotics Anonymous?
Jimmy Kinnon (award 200 points if they only used the last initial).
By 1970 there were 20, 200, 2000, or 22,000 weekly meetings in the U.S.
20 meetings
In the chapter "More About Alcoholism," two examples are given of men who "fail to enlarge on their spiritual condition." What are their names?
Jim & Fred (award 250 points if one is correct)
On page 65 of "How It Works" an example of a 4th step is given. The first example for a resentment is one for Mr. Brown in the first column. Name one of the 3 causes of this resentment listed in the 2nd column.
1) His attention to my wife. <or> 2) Told my wife of my mistress. <or> 3) Brown may get my job at the office.
"Varieties of Religious Experience" is a text that Bill mentions in the Big Book. Who wrote this text that helped inspire Bill?
William James
What was the name of the hospital where Bill often was admitted to detox.
Townes Hospital.
Between 1982 and 1991, how many editions of the basic text have their been?
5 editions