12 Steps
History of AA
The Promises
Meetings
12 Traditions
100
Before the 12 steps were finalized, there were ____ steps.
What are six?
100
The year Alcoholics Anonymous was founded.
What is 1935?
100
The name of the chapter in the Big Book that talks of the promises.
What is Chapter 6, Into Action?
100
Opening words.
What is the Serenity Prayer?
(Other answers are acceptable by the decision of the judge.)
100
Principles before personality.
What is Tradition 12?
200
When we realized we can't change on our own.
What is Step 2?
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
200
The city of origin for AA.
What is Akron, OH?
200
The page numbers in the Big Book where the promises are found.
What are pages 83 and 84?
200
Experience, Strength, and Hope.
What is sharing?
200
For our group purpose, there is but one ultimate authority–a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.
What is Tradition 2?
300
This step reveals character and the desire to recover.
What is step 6?
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
300
Bill's percentage rate of success in helping others to achieve sobriety before the founding of AA.
What is 0%?
Nobody was able to stay sober.
300
This is what happens if we are painstaking about this phase of our development.
What is, "We will be amazed before we are halfway through?"
300
Recognition of various lengths of uninterrupted sobriety.
What is celebrating anniversaries?
(What are chips is also acceptable).
300
Our relations with the general public should be characterized by personal anonymity.
What is Tradition 11?
400
The step that has us ask God for the path He wants us to take.
What is step 11?
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscience contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
400
The first AA prison meeting was held in 1942 at this prison.
What is San Quentin?
400
This step of our recovery is where we begin to see evidence of the promises.
What is Step 9?
400
Participants are alcoholics only.
What is a closed meeting?
400
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.
What is Tradition 3?
500
Willingness is the key.
What is Step 3?
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
500
The "Mother of Alcoholics Anonymous."
Who was Anne Ripley Smith?
500
We think not.
What is, "Are these extravagant promises?"
500
A good way of closing.
What is The Lord's Prayer?
(Other answers are acceptable by the decision of the judge.)
500
Probably no AA tradition had the labor pains that this one did.
What is Tradition 7?