AA TWELVE STEPS
AA Meeting Madness
Big Book Highlights
AA Fun Facts
AA Firsts
100

Step Twelve tells us to carry the message and to practice the principles in what?

What are all our affairs?

100

What document is often read aloud to explain AA’s function before sharing begins?

What is the AA Preamble?

100

In the Big Book, what is the title of Chapter 2?

What is “There Is a Solution”?

100

The first AA group is considered to have formed in which U.S. state?

What is Ohio?

100

The first AA group outside of Akron formed in which city?

What is New York City?

200

The Big Book states that the root of our trouble is what spiritual disease?

What is selfishness and self-centeredness?

200

What do members mean when they say a meeting is “discussion format”?

What is each person shares in turn without a set topic or speaker?

200

The Big Book states that “alcohol was but a symptom”; what did we have to address instead?

What is the underlying causes and conditions?

200

The title “Alcoholics Anonymous” comes from what part of the Big Book?

What is the name of the book itself?

200

What is considered the first AA “clubhouse” ever used for meetings?

What is the Akron home/Gate Lodge associated with Dr. Bob?

300

The 12&12 describes Step Four as a process of uncovering the “exact nature of…” what?

What are our wrongs?

300

What do AA members call it when someone urgently shares because they fear relapse?

What is a burning desire?

300

What is described as the “keystone” of the new and triumphant arch through which we passed to freedom?

What is Step Three?

300

In early AA, what religious fellowship influenced its principles before independence?

What is the Oxford Group?

300

The first typed manuscript of the Big Book was circulated to gather what?

What is feedback and financial pledges?

400

The Third Step Prayer asks God to relieve us of what?

What is the bondage of self?

400

What phrase in meetings means speaking directly to or about another’s share?

What is cross-talk?

400

In “More About Alcoholism,” the Big Book says the persistence of the illusion caused alcoholics to do what?

What is to try to control and enjoy drinking?

400

When AA first began, what was the only treatment tool they had besides meetings?

What is the Big Book itself?

400

What magazine published the first major public article about AA in 1941?

What is The Saturday Evening Post?

500

Step Nine is done not to win approval but to “fit ourselves to be…” what?

What is of maximum service to God and others?

500

What Tradition states AA “ought never be organized” in the authoritarian sense?

What is Tradition Nine?

500

According to the Big Book, what is the “chief sponsor of my life” when I am spiritually blocked?

What is fear?

500

AA’s Twelve Traditions were first printed publicly in what AA publication?

What is the Grapevine?

500

The first edition of the Big Book contained how many personal stories?

What is 29 stories?  

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