AA
Mental Health
Substance Use
Music
Movies/TV
100

What is the principle behind Step 1

Honesty

100

This common anxiety disorder is characterized by sudden episodes of intense fear, often including heart palpitations and shortness of breath.  

Panic Disorder

100

These symptoms, which may include anxiety, sweating, nausea, or tremors, can occur when a person reduces or stops heavy, prolonged substance use.

Withdrawal

100

Which soulful hit by Teddy Swims, that spent a week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, was ranked the number one song on Billboard’s 2024 Year-End Hot 100 singles chart?

Lose Control

100

Which fantasy drama series based on George R.R. Martin’s novels, produced by HBO and often ranked among the greatest TV shows ever made, became a global phenomenon despite controversy over its final season?

Game of Thrones

200

What year was the first edition of the Big Book published?

1939

200

This evidence-based therapy helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and is widely used to treat depression and anxiety.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

200

Defined by SAMHSA as a “process of change” toward improved health, self-directed living, and reaching one’s potential, this concept emphasizes that abstinence may or may not be the sole goal.  

Recovery

200

Which 1994 hip-hop track by The Notorious B.I.G., featuring a memorable “it was all a dream” opening line and a sample of Mtume’s “Juicy Fruit,” became one of the most iconic rap songs of the decade?

Juicy

200

Which Pixar sequel, released in 2024 and becoming the year’s highest‑grossing film worldwide, returns to the mind of Riley as new emotions like Anxiety join Joy, Sadness, and the others?

Inside Out 2

300

What are the names of the co-founders of AA

Dr. Bob and Bill W

300

This term describes experiencing both a mental health disorder and a substance use disorder at the same time, often requiring integrated treatment.

Co-occuring disorder

300

This treatment-planning principle in modern addiction counseling replaces “one-size-fits-all” approaches by tailoring interventions to each person’s needs, strengths, and chosen recovery pathway  

Person-centered recovery framework

300

Which rapper became the first non-classical, non-jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music?

Kendrick Lamar

300

Which actor, who plays mob associate Henry Hill and narrates much of the story, delivers the famous opening line “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster” in Goodfellas?

Ray Liotta

400

This Tradition states that the only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking.

Third Tradition

400

Often used for borderline personality disorder, this therapy combines cognitive-behavioral techniques with mindfulness and distress tolerance skills.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

400

This public health approach focuses on reducing the adverse consequences of substance use—through tools like naloxone distribution or syringe services—without requiring abstinence.

Harm Reduction

400

Which Texas blues guitarist released the 1983 debut album Texas Flood?

Stevie Ray Vaughn

400

Which Baltimore‑set HBO series, frequently cited by critics as one of the greatest TV dramas ever made, uses five seasons to examine interconnected institutions like the drug trade, police, schools, and the media?


The Wire

500

This spiritual foundation of all the Traditions “ever reminds us to place principles before personalities.”

Anonymity

500

This trauma-related condition can involve flashbacks, nightmares, avoidance, and hypervigilance after a life-threatening or deeply disturbing event.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

500

This evidence-based counseling approach helps people resolve ambivalence about change and strengthen their own motivation to reduce or quit substance use.

Motivational Interviewing

500

Which 1997 hit song by Third Eye Blind, featuring lyrics about addiction and a catchy “doo-doo-doo” chorus, became one of the band’s best-known tracks from their self-titled debut album?

Semi-Charmed Life

500

Which 1958 psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, was ranked the greatest film of all time in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics’ poll before being displaced in 2022?

Vertigo