Literature
What are the two AA books that discuss the steps?
12x12 and the Big Book
What is the name of the second co-founded of AA?
Dr Bob
True or False: Your sponsor is there to make sure you do your step work?
False
How many meetings in how many days are suggested to newcomers?
90 in 90
What is the two components of step one?
*Bonus:Finish this sentence: The delusion that we are like other people... has to be _____. Extra 300 points
Powerlessness and Unmanageability
*Smashed
Name two prayers that are often recited at the end of a meeting
Serenity Prayer
Lord's Prayer
Third Step Prayer
Seventh Step Prayer
What was the name of Bill Wilsons wife?
*Bonus: What program did she start that is still in existence today? Extra 200 points.
Lois
*Alanon
Alcoholism is three fold. Name the three components.
*Bonus: What are the manifestations associated. If you can give me the exact words, extra 300 points.
Physical Factor (*Phenomenon of Craving)
Mind (Obsession along with a *Peculiar Mental Twist)
Spiritual Malady (Characterized by Unmanageability| *Lack of power | *Restless Irritable and Discontented)
What sets off the Phenomenon of Craving?
Drinking or Using.
In step 3, what is your will and life that is to be turned over to a higher power?
Will: Thinking
Life: Behavior or Actions
What word is missing from the following sentence: Lack of ____ that was our dilemma.
*Bonus: Powerless is part of what step?
Power
**Step One - 100 Points
What was the name of the organization that our steps were derived?
*Bonus: How many steps were in their program? Extra 200 points.
Oxford Group
*6
What is the difference between Belief and Faith?
Hint: You are ____ that what we are telling you is true..
Belief is hope that something is true. Faith is knowing that something is true via experience coming to a dependence on that thing.
Name three basic things we should do in recovery?
Hint: Don't think too hard. Simple things that should be done..
Meetings
Sponsorship
Building a fellowship
Prayer
Step Work
In step 4, how many inventories are conventionally written?
Hint: More than two.
4 (I will accept three if no one guesses 4)
What part/chapter of the book describes the physical factors of the disease?
Hint: As described by the....
Doctor's Opinion
Who came to Bill Wilson at his childhood home to first talk to him about his alcoholism?
*Bonus: What did this person say to Bill that entirely changed his opinion on God? extra 600 points
Ebby Thacher
*Why don't you choose your own conception of God?
What is the main purpose of sponsorship?
*Bonus: While working with ours what is our "only aim". Extra, 250 points
To take sponsees through the steps.
*To be helpful
In what order do you recovery?
A. Physically, Spiritually, Mentally
B. Mentally, Physically, Spiritually
C. Spiritually, Physically, Mentally
D. Spiritually, Mentally, Physically
D.
What step are the promises that are read in meetings referring to when it says, "If we are painstaking about this phase of development we will be amazed before we are halfway through..."
Step 9
What word goes in the end of the sentence: The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be _____.
Smashed
Where was the first meeting of AA held?
Akron, Ohio
What are the three forms of prayer?
Petition
Praise (Gratitude)
Self-Forgetting
What pages provide directions to begin to practice turning your will and life over to your higher power.
Hint: On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead..
86-88
What two steps refer to inventories?
Steps 4 and 10.