General Knowledge
Who are the two founders of Alcoholics Anonymous?
Dr. William D Silkworth (Silky Baby) and Bill Wilson
Men and women drink essentially because...?
They like the effect produced by alcohol
Liquor ceased to be a luxury; it became a ______.
Necessity
What is the tremendous fact for every one of us?
We have discovered a common solution
What is the great obsession?
The idea that someday, somehow, he will control and enjoy his drinking.
Where was AA founded?
Akron, Ohio
We work out our solution on the spiritual as well as the ________ plane?
Altruistic
Simple but not easy; a price had to be paid. It meant destruction of _________.
Self-centeredness
Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depends upon what?
Our constant thought of others and how we may help meet their needs.
What is the first step in recovery?
We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics
Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing what?
Their experience, strength, and hope
Unless a person can experience what, there is very little hope for his recovery?
An entire psychic change
What did Bill's friend suggest that then seemed a novel idea?
Why don't you choose your own conception of God?
Most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost what?
The power of choice in drink
Physicians who are familiar with alcohlism agree that what?
There is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic
In what year was the big book FIRST published?
1939
_______ seldom suffices. The message which can interest and hold these alcoholic people must have depth and weight.
Frothy emotional appeal
An alcoholic and his cups is what?
an unlovely creature.
What are the three types of drinkers?
Moderate, hard, or real alcoholic.
The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink... His defense must come from what?
What do our stories disclose in a general way?
What we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now.
The _______ is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker.
Phenomenon of craving
What has to work in and through us twenty-four hours a day, or we perish?
Faith
What is the solution? (Paraphrasing OK)
The self-searching, the leveling of our pride, and the confession of shortcomings
The actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of what?
Self-knowledge