Twelve Steps
Meetings
Big Book
Fun Facts and Random Questions
Firsts
100

This was the number of Steps originally done with Dr. Bob

What is 6 steps

100

AA members approaching new members for romance or dates is sometimes referred to as this

What is "Thirteenth-stepping"?

100

There are this many sections of stories in the Big Book?

What is 3?

100

This is the organization that inspired a lot of AA's ideals and methods

What is the Oxford Group?

100

Recite the first step.

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.

200

This is the first step to include talk of a higher power

What is Step 2?

200

Meetings where only alcoholics can attend are referred to as this while anyone can this type of meeting.

What are "Closed" meetings (only alcoholics) and "open" (anyone can attend}

200

This the full title of the original "Big Book"

What is "Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism"

200

Fill in the blank,"Our primary purpose is to stay sober and ______________________________________....

What is "...help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety."

200

This is the year that the first woman joined AA.

What is 1937?

Florence Rankin, the first woman to ever get sober in AA. In March of 1937 she joined AA in New York and despite several relapses, she remained sober for over a year and wrote the first story by a woman for the “Big Book”(AA

300

This is the number of the 12 Steps of AA that have the word alcohol or alcoholic in them

What is 2?

(Step 1 and Step 12)

300

There are both men and women specific meetings. True or False

What is True

300

Fill in the blank:

"Acceptance is__________.

the answer to all my problems today."

300

The "12 & 12" refers to this text?

What are The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions?

300

This is the Connecticut institution where Marty Mann was when she first learned about Alcoholics Anonymous

What is the High Watch Recovery center?

 Mann founded the National Council on Alcoholism and was considered the first woman with longterm sobriety.

400

This is the number of the 12 Steps of AA that begin with "We"?

What is 1?

(The first Step)

400

Fill in the blank:

Every A.A. group ought to be______________, declining outside contributions.

fully self supporting

400

The beginning of the Big Book has mostly been changed since 1939, this is the number of pages that this consists of, not counting the Doctors opinion.

What are the first 164 pages?

400

This is how the Serenity Prayer come to be used in 12 Step programs

What is: that it was seen in an obituary and brought to Bill W's attention by a member named Jack?

400

This is where Bill and Lois first settled after being evicted from their Brooklyn home

What is Stepping Stones in Katonah, NY?

500

This is the name of the priest who does "Chalk Talk"

Who is Father Joseph Martin?

500

The first meeting between Bill W and Dr. Bob happened in this month and year and in this City and State?

What is May, 1935 in Akron, Ohio?

500

The Alcoholics Anonymous book is nicknamed "The Big Book" for this reason

What is because they requested that each page be printed with unusually large margins surrounding the text. 

500

The 12 Steps are for the alcoholic, the 12 Traditions are for the group and the 12 _______ are for the service to our Fellowship.

What are the Concepts?


500

Fill in the blanks:

"With few exceptions, our members find that they have tapped an ___________________ which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves."

What is an "unexpected inner resource"?