Step Work & Inventory
This step reads: 'Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.'
What is Step Two?
STEAL: Correct answer worth 1000.
If the answering team misses, the opposing team may steal it for 1500.
SOURCE: Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
This tradition states that personal recovery depends on unity, and that common welfare should come first.
Only the person who picked can answer, no help from their team. Correct answer 300. Incorrect: 100 to the other team.
What is Tradition One?
Correct answer 500
Incorrect answer 300 to the other team
SOURCE: NA Basic Text, Tradition One
This is the term for the regular meeting, usually attended weekly, that a member considers their main group.
What is a home group?
General AA/NA culture
The physician who authored this chapter served as chief medical officer at this New York hospital, where he treated many early AA members.
What is Towns Hospital?
SOURCE: Alcoholics Anonymous ("The Doctor's Opinion")
This man escaped slavery and became a leading abolitionist, orator, and writer.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
General knowledge — no literature source
This step calls for making a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is Step Four?
Correct answer 600 | If stolen 1000
SOURCE: Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Step Four
This tradition holds that for the group purpose there is but one ultimate authority, expressed through group conscience.
Only the person who picked can answer with no help from their team
What is Tradition Two?
Correct answer 600
Incorrect 200 to the other team
SOURCE: NA Basic Text, Tradition Two
This term describes someone who is sober but still exhibits the thinking patterns and behaviors of active addiction.
What is a 'dry drunk'?
STEAL: Correct answer 600. If stolen, 1200.
SOURCE: General AA/NA culture
Dr. Silkworth's theory held that the real alcoholic suffers from a physical sensitivity he likened to this kind of bodily reaction, paired with a mental obsession.
What is an allergy?
Right answer 1200. Wrong answer: 1800 to the other team.
SOURCE: Alcoholics Anonymous ("The Doctor's Opinion")
This scientist and inventor developed hundreds of uses for the peanut and sweet potato while teaching at Tuskegee Institute.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This step involves admitting to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
What is Step Five?
Correct answer 900
If stolen 1200
SOURCE: Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Step Five
This tradition states each group has but one primary purpose: to carry the message to the addict who still suffers.
What is Tradition Five?
Correct answer 900
Incorrect answer 300 to the other team
SOURCE: NA Basic Text, Tradition Five
This is the common term for the low point that leads a person to finally seek help.
What is 'rock bottom' (a bottom)?
SOURCE: General AA/NA culture
⚠ ZERO OUT: If answered incorrectly, that team's score resets to zero.
This term describes the uncontrollable urge for more alcohol once drinking begins — the phenomenon the Doctor says separates the real alcoholic from an ordinary heavy drinker.
What is the "phenomenon of craving"?
Right answer 1500. Wrong answer: 2100 to the other team.
SOURCE: Alcoholics Anonymous ("The Doctor's Opinion")
This mathematician's orbital trajectory calculations at NASA were personally requested by John Glenn before his 1962 spaceflight; her story was later told in the film "Hidden Figures."
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Pass or answer incorrectly and opposing team receives 5000 points.
This step is about becoming entirely ready to have a Higher Power remove all our defects of character.
Only the person who picked can answer with no help from their team
What is Step Six?
Correct answer 800
incorrect answer 400 to the other team
SOURCE: Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Step Six
This tradition warns groups never to endorse, finance, or lend the fellowship's name to any related facility or outside enterprise.
⚠ STEAL: If answered incorrectly, the other team steals the points.
What is Tradition Six?
⚠ STEAL: If answered incorrectly, the other team steals the points.
SOURCE: NA Basic Text, Tradition Six
This is the term for a personal story shared at a speaker meeting, covering what it was like, what happened, and what it's like now.
What is a qualification (or lead)?
General AA/NA culture
⚠ ZERO OUT: If answered incorrectly, that team's score resets to zero.
SOURCE: Common recovery terminology
The Doctor's Opinion states that, with rare exceptions, the real alcoholic will be unable to stop drinking on the basis of this alone.
What is self-knowledge?
Right answer 2000. Wrong answer: 2600 to the other team.
SOURCE: Alcoholics Anonymous ("The Doctor's Opinion")
This poet and civil rights activist wrote and read the poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at a 1993 presidential inauguration.
Only the person who's turn it ia can answer this question.
Who is Maya Angelou?
Answer incorrectly and your team's score resets to zero.
This step involves humbly asking a Higher Power to remove our shortcomings.
What is Step Seven?
⚠ DOUBLE POINTS: If answered correctly, that team's entire score doubles.
This tradition states that every group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
What is Tradition Seven?
Correct answer 2000
Incorrect answer 1000 to the other team
SOURCE: NA Basic Text, Tradition Seven
This slang term describes gritting your way through cravings through sheer willpower alone, without leaning on the program.
What is 'white-knuckling' it?
STEAL: Correct answer 2000. If stolen, 2500.
SOURCE: General AA/NA culture
Dr. Silkworth wrote that many alcoholics considered medically hopeless were restored to health through this kind of experience, producing a complete change in outlook.
What is a spiritual experience (psychic change)?
Right answer 2500. Wrong answer: 3200 to the other team.
SOURCE: Alcoholics Anonymous ("The Doctor's Opinion")
This surgeon performed one of the first successful open-heart surgeries in the United States in 1893 and founded Provident Hospital, one of the nation's first Black-owned hospitals.
Only a Baltimore native can answer this question.
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
If you answer incorrectly, 5000 points is awarded to the opposing team.