Early AA
This figure in the Big Book describes alcohol as an allergy.
Who is Dr. Silkworth?
Prohibition discouraged drinking by banning these activities.
What is the import, transport, and sale of alcohol.
The reaction of many of us when first encountering the 12 steps.
What is “What an order! I can’t go through with it’’?
This character from the Netflix series "House of Cards" sporadically attends AA meetings before relapsing.
Who is Doug Stamper?
"To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a _________ basis are not always easy alternatives to face."
What is spiritual?
She was Bill Wilson's loyal wife.
Who was Lois Wilson?
This famous prohibition gangster was the nemesis of Eliot Ness.
Who was Al Capone?
The most text in the Big Book is devoted to this step.
What is Step One?
James Woods plays the lead in this 1989 film about one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous.
What is My Name is Bill W?
What is our code in AA?
Love and tolerance.
Bill and Bob initially stayed sober with the support of this group.
What is the Oxford Group?
10,000 people died from drinking tainted alcohol during Prohibition. Others suffered another permanent outcome.
What is blindness?
What is the text of the Third Step Prayer.
What is: God, I offer myself to Thee – to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of Life.
This 1987 movie features a romance between two alcoholics played by Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway.
What is "Barfly"?
"Do I now believe, or am I willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?" is found in this chapter.
What is Chapter 4: We Agnostics
Bill W referred to this early member as his sponsor.
Who is Ebby Thatcher?
New York City had 30,000 of such establishments by the end of Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
The seven deadly sins structure the discussion of this step in the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions.
What is Step Four?
Nicholas Cage won Best Actor for his performance as an alcoholic screenwriter in this 1995 Movie.
What is Leaving Las Vegas?
This Big Book appendix lists Honesty, Openminded-ness, and Willingness as indispensable to recovery.
What is Appendix 2, Spiritual Experience.
There were approximately this many members of Alcoholics Anonymous when the Big Book was written.
What is 100?
This State never actually enforced the 18th Amendment.
What is Maryland?
This steps gets the longest treatment in the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions.
what is Step 12?
In this 1994 movie, Meg Ryan neglects her family in favor of long talk sessions with her friends in early sobriety.
What is "When a Man Loves a Woman"?
According to this passage, we can expect a new freedom and a new happiness if we work steps 1-9.
What is "the Promises"?