Quoting the Steps
"Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God [...]"
What is Step Three?
A.A. meetings are self-supporting through this.
What is Our Own Contributions?
The "number one offender" that destroys more alcoholics than anything else.
What is Resentment?
The number of chapters in the Big Book.
What is Eleven?
The first Step to recovery.
What is Admit we are Powerless Over Alcohol?
Someone who believes that it is impossible to know if God exists.
What is an Agnostic?
This quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet often appears on A.A. sobriety coins.
What is "To Thy Own Self Be True"?
Symptoms include headache, anxiety, tremors, seizures, and delirium.
What is Alcohol Withdrawl?
Feeling anger due to a real or imagined offense or injury.
What is Resentment?
Recommended number of A.A. meetings in the first three months of recovery.
What is Ninety?
The first A.A. meeting was held in this city.
What is Akron, Ohio?
"Made a list of all persons we had harmed [...]"
What is Step Eight?
The only requirement for A.A. membership.
What is a Desire to Quit Drinking?
An alcoholic's defense against the first drink must derive from this.
What is a Higher Power?
Year the first edition of the Big Book was published.
What is 1939?
The result of practicing all Twelve Steps.
What is a Spiritual Awakening?
The fellowship from which the origins of Alcoholics Anonymous evolved.
What is the Oxford Group?
They are Recovery, Unity, and Service.
What are A.A.'s Legacies?
Consequence of excessive drinking which can cause unconsciousness, coma, or death.
What is Alcohol Poisoning?
Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome.
What is Insanity?
This alone is not enough to overcome alcoholism.
What is Willpower?
The year Alcoholics Anonymous was founded.
What is 1935?
"Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, [...]"
What is Step Twelve?
The spiritual foundation of all A.A. Traditions.
What is Anonymity?
To save their lives, an alcoholic must put this first.
What is Sobriety?
The title of the Big Book devoted to Step Twelve.
What is "Working with Others"?
When other tasks fail, the one most likely to "insure immunity from drinking".
What is Working With Others?
The most important person in Alcoholics Anonymous.
Who is the Newcomer?
Medical doctor who proposed the theory that alcoholism is a physical disease.
Who was William D. Silkworth M.D.?
Consuming four or more alcohol drinks in one sitting.
What is Binge Drinking?
People, places, objects, or emotions that arouse a desire to drink.
What are Triggers?
The result of believing in a power greater than ourselves.
What is Sanity?
This person first introduced Bill W. and Dr. Bob.
Who was Henrietta Seiberling?
"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."
What is Step Four?
Necessary for the personal recovery and the common welfare of A.A.
What is Unity?
The only suggested relief for alcohol cravings in "The Doctor's Opinion".
What is Entire Abstinence?
Title of the only personal story which appears as a chapter in the Big Book.
What is "Bill's Story"?
Often the outcome of the easier and softer manner of practicing Step Five.
What is Relapse?
Known as the "Angel of Hope" for work helping treat alcoholics at St. Thomas Hospital.
Who was Sister Ignatia?
The initial number of basic Steps, later refined and expanded into a 12-Step program.
What is Six?
Birth defects associated with the use of alcohol during pregnancy.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
Acronym used to identify physical and emotional stress which may trigger a relapse.
What is H.A.L.T.?
Persons are more likely to maintain sobriety and reduce the chance of relapse if they do this.
What is Attend Regular A.A. Meetings?
Recognized as the first woman in A.A. to achieve lasting sobriety.
Who was Margaret "Marty" M.?
"Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."
What is Step Seven?
Each group that carries it's message to the still suffering alcoholic is accomplishing this mission.
What is Primary Purpose?
An alcoholic will be "absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of this".
What is Self-Knowledge?
The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women have Recovered from Alcoholism.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
We claim to achieve this type of personal progress through the 12-Step principles.
What is Spiritual?
A folk personification of alcoholic drink, especially beer and whiskey.
Who is John Barleycorn?
The A.A. founding date, June 10, 1935, also signifies this important event.
What was Dr. Bob's Last Drink?
A sobering event in which a person realizes they have lost control over alcohol.
What is Hitting Bottom?
A painfull feeling you are bad, inadequate, or contemptable.
What is Shame?
In the "Doctor's Opinion" the type of change required for the hope of recovery from alcoholism.
What is Psychic?
Alcohol treatment facility were Bill W. first met Dr. William Silkworth.
What was Towns Hospital?