AA Terms
What is the mental obsession?
- what is the keyword
What is a thought that overrides all rational thoughts?
- what is rational?
This is the only requirement for membership in the AA fellowship.
What is the desire to stop drinking?
The most important person at any AA meeting.
Bonus 100 if you can say why
What is the newcomer?
What is because we keep what we have by giving it away?
Who is the higher power we should believe in?
What is anyone or anything you believe is your supreme power. I.E. God, Allah, Supreme Being, Jehovah, Jah, Yahweh, Odin, King, Jahveh, the man upstairs, Lord, Master of the Universe, Messiah, Christ, Jesus, guardian spirit, Jesus Christ, the doorknob, Microwave, etc.
Who wrote the Big Book?
Who is "Bill W."
What is the physical allergy?
100 extra points if you describe how you understand this in your life:)
What is an abnormal reaction?
This person will help you navigate the program and is someone you can rely on in a time of need.
Bonus 100 points if you can name yours
What is a Sponsor?
___ meetings in ___ days is recommended to help form good habits and build your support network.
What is 90 meetings in 90 days?
Why is the year 1939 important?
What is The Big Book was written then?
What are the three major elements to change according to the Big Book?
What are "self-searching, leveling of pride, and confession of shortcomings"
"Once I start, I can't stop" is known as....
What is craving?
We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, and that our lives had become unmanageable.
What is Step 1?
Name a type of mentor-led meeting, other than AA.
What is... NA meetings, Celebrate Recovery, 12-Step meetings, or Smart Recovery?
How many A.A. members were there when they wrote the book, "Alcoholics Anonymous"?
How many is 100?
What are the four absolutes in the Big Book?
What are
"My mind alters the truth and I buy the lie" is the definition for what??
What is the peculiar mental twist?
What step is: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
What is the 10th Step?
What is it called when people fellowship before and after a meeting?
What is the meeting before the meeting/the meeting after the meeting?
This is the serenity prayer.
What is "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things that I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."?
How many times is the word powerless used in the first 164 pages?
How many is once?
How many Spiritual Principles are there? Name at least three of them?
What is the 12 spiritual principles?
What is Honesty, Hope, Faith, Courage, Integrity, Willingness, Humility, Brotherly Love, Justice, Perseverance, Spiritual Awareness, Service?
What is the main reason that 12-step groups work?
What is "People in recovery need to feel like they are not alone"
A meeting that a person in recovery designates as their 'official' meeting, or is the meeting they go to most often.
What is a home group?
In the chapter “More about Alcoholism”, there is a story about a car salesman named Jim who went out looking for a prospect to sell a car. What did he pour his whisky into?
What is milk?
When was the second edition of the big book introduced?
When is 1958?