The Big Book
This is "the number one offender". It destroys more alcoholics than anything else.
What is RESENTMENT?
(BB-How It Works, page 64)
This is the name of the Chapter that contains the 12 Steps.
What is How It Works?
(BB-How It Works, pg 59-60)
This is the name of the doctor who wrote "The Doctor's Opinion".
Who is William D Silkworth, MD?
(BB-The Doctor's Opinion, pg xxxii)
This is the correct (official) name of CA's/AA's basic text?
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
Outside Cover and title page of Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book)
"Selfishness-____ ____________! That, we think, is the root of our troubles."
What is -SELF CENTEREDNESS?
(BB-How It Works, pg 62)
AA had this many members when the Big Book was written in 1939.
What is more than one hundred?
(BB-Foreword to the 1st Edition, pg xiii)
"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. "
What is Step 11?
(BB-How It Works, page 59)
"What we really have is a daily reprieve 'from drinking' contingent upon the maintenance of our _________ _________."
What is SPIRITUAL CONDITION?
(BB-Into Action, pg 85)
This is step 10.
What is, "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."?
(BB-How It Works, pg 59)
"But we aren't _ ____ ___. If newcomers could see no joy or fun in our existence, they wouldn't want it."
What is A GLUM LOT?
(BB-The Family Afterward, page 132)
"Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing their ___________, _________ and ____."
What are EXPERIENCE, STRENGTH and HOPE?
(BB-Foreword to the 3rd Edition, pg xxii)
This is step 12.
What is, "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs."?
(BB-How It Works, pg 60)
This edition of the Big Book contains the Twelve Concepts for World Service.
What is the Fourth Edition?
(BB-Contents page x, Preface page xii, and Appendices page 574)
Directions for contacting the fellowship of Al-Anon Family Groups is located at the end of this chapter.
What is To Wives?
(BB-To Wives, pg 120)
"Though he could not accept all the tenets of the ______ ______, he was convinced of the need for moral inventory, confession of personality defects, restitution to those harmed, helpfulness to others, and the necessity of belief in and dependence upon God".
What are the OXFORD GROUPS?
(BB-Foreward to 2nd Edition, page xvi)
"If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no ___________ of any kind, nor any lurking notion, that someday we will be immune to alcohol."
What is RESERVATION?
(BB-More About Alcoholism, page 33)
"If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have ______ _______ over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic."
What is LITTLE CONTROL?
(BB-We Agnostics, pg 44)
Herbert Spencer is quoted in the Spiritual Experience Appendix as saying, "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance." This is the principle he's talking about.
What is Contempt Prior to Investigation?
(BB-Appendices II-Spiritual Experience, page 568. Quote by Herbert Spencer)
"The actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of ____-_________."
What is SELF-KNOWLEDGE?
(BB-More About Alcoholism, pg 39)
This man said, "There are 4 reasons why he spends a great deal of time passing on what he learned to others who want and need it badly: (1) “a sense of duty,” (2) “it is a pleasure,” (3) “because in so doing, I am paying my debt to the man who took time to pass it on to me,” and (4) “because every time I do it, I take out a little more insurance for myself against a slip”.
Who is Dr. Bob?
(BB-Doctor Bob's Nightmare, pages 180-181)
These are the hideous four horsemen mentioned in A Vision For You... ______, ____________, ___________ and _______. Name 3 of them.
What are TERROR, BEWILDERMENT, FRUSTRATION, DESPAIR.
(BB-A Vision For You,Pg 151)
"This is the baffling feature about alcoholism as we know it- this utter inability to ______ __ _____, no matter how great the necessity or the wish."
What is to LEAVE IT ALONE.
(BB-More About Alcoholism, pg 34)
"Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work ____ ________ ________. "
What is WITH OTHER ALCOHOLICS?
(BB-Working With Others, pg 89)
"___________, _______ and ____-___________ are the essentials of recovery. But these are indispensable."
What are WILLINGNESS, HONESTY and OPEN-MINDEDNESS?
(BB- Appendices II-Spiritual Experience, pg 568)
Step 10 advises that we, "continue to watch for selfishness, __________, __________ and ____."
What are DISHONESTY, RESENTMENT and FEAR?
(BB-Into Action, pg 85)