A.A. Firsts
This is the first step toward recovery.
What is Admit Having a Drinking Problem?
The "number one offender" that destroys more alcoholics than anything else.
What is Resentment?
Often cited as the only Step that we have to do perfectly.
What is Step One?
A disease which causes scarring and eventual liver failure.
What is Cirrhosis?
They are Recovery, Unity, and Service.
What are A.A.'s Legacies?
This stockbroker is credited with cofounding Alcoholics Anonymous.
Who was Bill W.?
To save their lives, an alcoholic must put this first.
What is Sobriety?
The Big Book chapter that contains the Third Step prayer.
What is “How it Works”?
In this Step we strive to improve our conscious contact with our Higher Power.
What is Step Eleven?
Drinking four or more alcohol drinks in one sitting.
What is Binge Drinking?
This theologian is credited with writing the current version of the "Serenity Prayer".
Who was Reinhold Neibuhr?
The methodology of this fellowship was adopted to help form A.A.
What is the Oxford Group?
This date is celebrated as the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous.
What is June 10, 1935?
One reason Alcoholics Anonymous was nicknamed the 'Big Book'.
What is Contains Thick Pages?
Practicing this Step is like opening a door which appears still closed and locked.
What is Step Three?
A sobering life event that makes a person realize they have lost control over alcohol.
What is Hitting Bottom?
This quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet often appears on A.A. sobriety coins.
What is "To Thy Own Self Be True"?
He wrote the Big Book chapter titled "The Doctor's Opinion".
Who was William D. Silkworth M.D.?
Developed by Bill W., they first appear in the Grapevine in 1946.
What are the Twelve Traditions?
An alcoholic's defense against the first drink must come from this.
What is a Higher Power?
This Step requires painstaking effort to discover our liabilities and misdirected instincts.
What is Step Four?
Headaches, tiredness, nausea, and mood swings are symptoms of this.
What is Detoxification?
In 1973, this U.S. President recieved the one millionth copy of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Who was Richard M. Nixon?
A folk personification of alcoholic drink, esp. beer and whiskey.
Who is John Barleycorn?
Defining A.A.'s fellowship and mission, it first appears in the June 1947 ed. of the Grapevine.
What is the A.A. Preamble?
They are Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, and Despair.
What are the Four Horsemen?
The part of ourselves that all of A.A.'s Steps ask us to deflate.
What is Ego?
Birth defects associated with the use of alcohol during pregnancy.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
1962, romantic comedy about an alcoholic married couple seeking help from A.A.
What is The Days of Wine and Roses?
Located in NYC, it serves as a central communication hub for A.A. groups.
What is the General Service Office?