The Big Book
This is the nickname for AA’s basic text, first published in 1939.
What is the Big Book?
Step 7 involves humbly asking God to remove these.
What are our shortcomings?
The name of the man who sponsored Bill W. and introduced him to the Oxford Group principles.
Who is Ebby T.?
These meetings, attended by GSRs, represent the groups in a local area and are one of the first steps in the service structure.
What are District Meetings?
What does the abbreviation "G.S.R." stand for in the context of AA's service structure?
What is General Service Representative?
The Big Book says AA members share their “experience, strength, and” this.
What is "hope"?
Step 4 involves making a “searching and fearless” one of these.
What is a moral inventory?
The year and location of AA's founding.
What is 1935 and Akron, Ohio?
The official AA document that guides members in their service work, which includes the Twelve Concepts.
The name for AA’s worldwide service structure headquarters, based in New York.
What is the General Service Office (GSO)?
This chapter, often read aloud at meetings, begins with “Rarely have we seen a person fail…”
What is "How it Works"?
Tradition 10 states that AA has no opinion on this.
What are outside issues?
The total number of members in AA when the Big Book was written.
What is 100?
The name of the official magazine of Alcoholics Anonymous, first published in 1944.
What is the AA Grapevine?
This is where the ultimate authority in AA lies, making it the highest level of the reverse pyramid.
What is the AA Group Conscience?
The preface to the second edition says the Big Book was first published in this year
What is 1939?
The phrase “God as we understood Him” first appears in this Step.
What is Step 3?
The name of the hotel where Bill W. and Dr. Bob first met in Akron, Ohio.
What is the Mayflower Hotel?
This popular AA slogan encourages focusing on the present, rather than the past or future, to manage sobriety.
What is "One Day at a Time"?
These members on the General Service Board are not alcoholics, a tradition meant to protect AA's finances and provide outside perspective.
What are the nonalcoholic trustees?
The answer to all our problems (Big Book, P. 417).
What is acceptance?
Step 11 suggests prayer and meditation to improve this type of contact.
What is conscience contact with God (as we understood him)?
The full name of the hospital where Dr. William Silkworth treated Bill W. and coined the "alcoholic allergy" theory.
What is Towns Hospital?
The principle outlined in the First Tradition that places the common welfare of the fellowship ahead of individual desires.
What is Unity?
A term for a member in a service position, emphasizing that they are accountable to the groups and not a governing authority.
What is a "trusted servant"?