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100

 You are born with more bones... than you have as an adult.

FACT

with babies having around 300 bones compared to the 206 bones in an adult skeletal system. As babies grow, their smaller bones and cartilage sections fuse together to form fewer, larger bones.

100

 "Our primary purpose is to stay sober and _______

...help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety."

100

If you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four, how many do you have?

The four you took

100

What year was Alcoholics Anonymous started?

1935

100

What do you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?

A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush

200

An octopus has three hearts.

FACT

Two hearts pump blood to its gills, while a third pumps it to the rest of its body.

200

The "12 & 12" refers to which text?

The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

200

What word is spelled incorrectly in every single dictionary?

Incorrectly 

200

Fill in the Blank 

Acceptance is _________________.

The answer to all my problems today 

200

Some months have 31 days, others have 30 days, but how many have 28 days?

All 12 

300

 The Potato was the first vegetable grown in space  

FACT

the potato was the first vegetable grown in space, in October 1995, during an experiment by NASA and the University of Wisconsin-Madison aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.

300

What was the organization that inspired a lot of AA's ideals and methods?

The Oxford Group

300

If you had only one match and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, some kindling wood, and a newspaper, which would you light first?

The match

300

What are the three essentials of recovery?

Honesty

Open-mindedness

Willingness  

300

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?

Neither. They both weigh exactly one pound

400

Ketchup was originally sold as a medicine.

FACT

In the 1830s, it was sold as a remedy for indigestion.

400

How many steps does the 12 Steps of AA begin with "we"?

1

400

If a plane crashes on the border between the United States and Canada, where do they bury the survivors?

Survivors aren’t buried!

400

What does AA consider to be the root of most troubles?

Selfishness & self-centeredness

400

What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Short :)

500

The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache in a standard deck of playing cards.

MYTH

All of the kings have mustaches.

500

AA members approaching new members for romance or dates is sometimes referred to as....

"Thirteenth-stepping"

500

 A girl fell off a 50-foot ladder but didn’t get hurt. How come?

She fell off the bottom step

500

The beginning of the Big Book has not been changed since 1939, but exactly how many pages does that consist of?

164

500

"Imagine"...you’re in a room that’s filling up with water quickly. There are no windows or doors. How do you get out?


Stop imagining

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