Twelve Steps
Often cited as the only Step that you have to do perfectly
What is the First Step?
AA members approaching new members for romance or dates is sometimes referred to as this.
What is "Thirteenth-stepping"?
To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered.
What is the main purpose of this book?
Read at the beginning of many meetings, Chapter 5 explains this.
What is "How it Works"
She typed the original manuscript and became AA's first secretary.
Who was Ruth Hock?
The "house parties" where many drunkards went for relief before AA.
What was the Oxford Group?
This Step is the first Step to include talk of a Higher Power.
What is Step 2?
This is the type of meeting that anyone can attend.
What is an Open Meeting?
Found on pages 83 and 84 of the Big Book starting with "If you are painstaking about this phase of your development".
What are the 9th Step Promises?
First printed in the AA Grapevine and still found there and not in the AA Big Book.
What is the AA Preamble?
The first woman to come into AA.
Who was Florence Rankin 1936?
The full title of the original "Big Book"
What was "Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism"?
The amount of AA Steps that have the word alcohol or alcoholic in them.
What is two?
According to an old joke these are the only two things necessary to start a meeting.
What are a coffeepot and a resentment?
The answer to all my problems today.
What is acceptance?
This saying prompts another member to repeat an action.
What is Keep Coming Back?
He treated Bill Wilson more than once and had an opinion about alcoholism.
Who is Dr Silkworth?
The amount of page numbers found of basic text in the first edition not including the personal stories.
What is 179?
According to the 12 & 12 the joy of living is the theme of this Step.
What is Step 12?
A special meeting for groups to check on their purpose.
What is a group inventory?
The page number where it is written that some of us will "trudge the Road of Happy Destiny".
What is page 164?
It was seen in an obituary and brought to Bill W's attention by an AA member
What is the Serenity Prayer?
A non-alcoholic who spent over twenty years as Bill Wilson's friend and spiritual advisor.
Who was Father Edward Dowling?
The year the Big Book was first published (bonus for month and day)
What was April 10th, 1939?
This Step has the same amount of words as the Step number.
What is Step 7?
The City and State where the first meeting officially called Alcoholics Anonymous met.
What is Cleveland, Ohio?
Oh to be a chapter or not a chapter, that is the question.
What is "The Doctor's Opinion"?
It gets you drunk.
What is the first drink?
Bill Wilson considered him a top influencer in the creation of AA and the man that brought "the spiritual answer" to aid in alcoholism recovery.
Who was Dr. Carl Jung?
The month and year that the Steps were formally written down (before the final edit).
What is December 1938?