Early Days & Wall Street
What country did Bill visit as a soldier where he saw a tombstone for a "Hampshire Grenadier"?
England
What 1929 event caused the financial ruin of Bill’s career on Wall Street?
Stock market crash
What was the name of the "old school friend" who visited Bill in his kitchen?
Ebby Thacher
Bill was told he could choose his own conception of what?
God
What was the name of Bill’s wife who stood by him through his drinking?
Lois Wilson
What sport did Bill take up that he said became an excuse to drink all day?
Golf
Bill describes four feelings that rode him like "the four horsemen." Name one.
Terror, bewilderment, frustration, or despair
Ebby T. told Bill that he had joined this religious group.
Oxford Group
Bill realized that his "icy intellectual mountain" was melted by what?
Sunlight/Faith
In what city did Bill and Lois live while he was a stockbroker?
New York City (Brooklyn)
What did Bill study in college before moving into the world of finance?
Law
What was the "terrible" two-word diagnosis Dr. Silkworth gave for Bill’s condition?
Mental obsession/Physical allergy
What beverage was on the kitchen table when Ebby first visited Bill?
Gin and pineapple juice
What specific book by William James did Bill read in the hospital?
The Varieties of Religious Experience
What was the name of the hospital where Bill had his last drink?
Towns Hospital
Bill failed to graduate law school because he was too drunk to do what?
Pick up his diploma
Bill reached a point where he needed a "tumbler full" of this followed by beer just to eat.
Gin
When Ebby suggested Bill choose his own God, Bill said he stood in this "at last."
The sunlight
Bill learned that for a spiritual transformation, "deflation at" this was necessary.
Depth
What was the name of the doctor who treated Bill and gave him hope through science?
Dr. William D. Silkworth
On a motorcycle trip, Bill and Lois investigated what industry in the South?
The stock market/business opportunities.
Bill’s wife was told he would soon have to be given over to the undertaker or this.
The asylum.
Bill’s friend told him, "God has done for me what I could not do for..."
Myself.
Bill realized that to stay sober, he must pay the "price" of destroying what?
Self-centeredness/Selfishness.
What specific cathedral did Bill visit in England where he first felt a sense of awe?
Winchester Cathedral