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100

What was the original name of the 12 steps & 12 Traditions?

What is Twelve Points to Assure our Future

100

Name the oldest women's group in the world.

What is the Winnipeg Womens Group

100

What is the mythical creature named in "Dr. Bob's Nightmare"?

What is Charybdis

100

This organization inspired many of A.A.'s ideals and methods.

What is the Oxford Group

100

When was the first issue of the A.A. Grapevine was published

When is June 1944

200

In which Tradition does "divert us from our primary purpose" appear?

What is Tradition Six

200

What does it mean to say some AA meetings are "closed" or "open"?

What is closed meetings are for alcoholics only, open meetings anyone can attend

200

What is the original full title of the Big Book?

What is Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism

200

Who is the nurse who helped over 10,000 alcoholics?

Who is Sister Ignatia

200

This is the year the first woman joined AA.

What is 1937

300

This many of the 12 steps have the word "alcohol" in them

What is Step two

300

There are both men and women specific meetings. True or False

True

300

What is the story titled "Acceptance was the Answer" in the 4th Edition titled in the 3rd Edition?

What is Doctor, Alcoholic, Addict

300
What is the spiritual foundation of A.A.?

What is anonymity

300

In what year was the "Just For Today" card first printed:

What is 1978

400

This many of the 12 steps begin with the word "WE"

What is Step one


400

What is the latest A.A. meeting format?

What is zoom (online) meetings

400

In what year did AAWS stop printing the circle/triangle logo in the Big Book?

What is 1993

400

How did the Serenity Prayer come to be used in AA?

What is a member an AA saw it in an obituary and showed it to Bill W

400

What year was the A.A. preamble first written?

What is 1947

500

What materializes after Step Nine?

What are The Promises

500

In what year did Bill W. meet Dr. Bob

What is 1935

500

Why Alcoholics Anonymous basic text nicknamed "The Big Book"?

Why is the type of paper used and the large margins in the first edition

500

He twelfth stepped Bill Wilson

Who is Ebby Thacher

500

What date is considered the "birthday" of A.A.

June 10, 1935

600

Which tradition had the word honest removed from it?

What is Tradition Three

600

How many types of A.A. meetings are there?

What is six 

*not required as part of the answer; open, closed, speaker, Big Book and specialty (men's, women's, LBGTQ2+)

600

Which day in "He Sold Himself Short" did the writer do steps with Dr. Bob?

What is is a Wednesday

600

What is the heartbeat of A.A.

What is the Homegroup

600

In what year was the first sobriety token given?

What is 1942 

*Not required as part of the answer: Doherty S. is thought to have started the sobriety coin tradition in Indianapolis A.A.

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