I heard it on the Grapevine
We Are Not A Glum Lot
A Seat At The Table
What's a GSR anyway?
AA History is Not a Mystery
100

Since June, 1944, 885 of these have been published.

What is the date of the first publication of the Grapevine.  The Grapevine has been published every month since then.  

100

Where can you go for a dive, eat ice cream, and light a fire all on the same day?

What is SoberFest?  This three day fun filled event is held the first weekend of June every year.  There is swimming, boating, mini-golf, marathon meetings, games, Speakers, and tons of fellowship!

100

This person is responsible for bringing traditions problems to the delegate.

What is a DCM?

A District Committee Member gets to welcome and train new GSR's.  They get to go to all district events, Soberfest, Round Up, Rompiendo Fronteras, CYSCYPAA, and the Convention!   Generally they have 4-5 years of sobriety and have had other positions within the district.

100

If you become this, you get GSO mailings, Box 4-5-9, and you are the first to hear about all District 2 events.  

What is a General Service Representative?

You are the lifeline between the groups and the District.  AA is an upside down pyramid and the groups decide everything.  You will bring issues from the group to district, and motions will be made, and the groups will vote on those motions.  You will also go to a voting assembly and vote on issues that affect AA as a whole.  

100

This International AA event will be celebrated in Detroit, Michigan in 2020.  

What is the International Conference of AA.

The 2020 International Convention of Alcoholics Anonymous will be held July 2–5, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan with the theme “Love and Tolerance is our Code.” A.A. members and guests from around the world will celebrate A.A.’s 85th year at this event with big meetings held Friday night, Saturday night and Sunday morning in the Ford Field Stadium. Other meetings, scheduled or informal, will take place throughout the weekend in the COBO Center in downtown Detroit. 


200

Over 150 Grapevine articles were authored by this one person.

Who is Bill Wilson?  

  • Acting as the senior advisor of the magazine, Bill W. wrote more than 150 articles in the AA Grapevine between 1945 and 1970. His articles are collected in the anthology The Language of the Heart.
200

An all day event that is all about how AA runs through service, (Not the Gathering!)

What is Round Up?  The Area Round-Up is a one day event filled with workshops for the sharing experience and knowledge about Recovery, Unity and Service. 

200

This person brings you your pizza at district GSR sharing sessions and is in charge of funding the very event you are at today!

What is a treasurer?

A treasurer for the district creates a budget, collects the receipts, writes checks, and creates a monthly report of the district's finances.

200

Desire to serve and time to attend district and area assemblies and a suggested 2 years of sobriety.  

What it takes to be a GSR?

200

The person who received the one millionth big book?

Sophia Loren    President Nixon   Elvis Presley  

Who is President Nixon?

300

The only part of the meeting to come from the Grapevine.  

What is the Preamble?  

  • The Preamble was written by a Grapevine editor, based on the Foreword to the first edition of the Big Book. It was first published in the Grapevine in June 1947.
300

This event is translated to English and is sponsored by District 13.

What is Rompiendo Fronteras?

This will be the 18th year of this bilingual sharing day.

300

This person is in charge of sending monthly emails to everyone from Columbia to Manchester to Hebron to Willimantic.  

What is a Recording Secretary?


300

Knowledge of all AA literature, GSO guidelines, bulletins, videos, tapes, and kits.  

What reading you are going to get to do as a GSR!

300

100 to 2,000 to 100,000 to 2 million

What is the number of AA members in 1939, 1940, 1950, and 2018

400

This is the only international journal of AA.

What is the Grapevine?

Early AA groups adopted the AA Grapevine as the international journal of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1946. The General Service Conference reaffirmed this designation in 1986.

400

What has over 80 events over a three day period and happens every September?

What is the AA Convention?

This year featured home group celebrations, yoga, drum circles, marathon meetings, speakers, ice cream social, dance, dinner, and a whole lot of fellowship!  

400

This person is responsible for making sure someone is always on the other end of the phone when you need it.  

What is the Answering Service?

District 2 answers approximately 600 calls a year.  For the newcomer, this may be the very first hand that reaches out to help.  Volunteers make sure this happens, Answering Service people make sure the phone bills get paid, solicit volunteers to answer the calls from the answering service and offer training.  

400

The opportunity to learn everything you can about the twelve traditions and the twelve concepts by living them and seeing them lived through other AA members.

What is a GSR!

400

Bill Wilson was born behind a bar in Vermont.

True or False

What is true.  You can't make this stuff up.

500

The amount of money AA spends on producing the Grapevine every year.

What is $0.

  • The AA Grapevine is entirely self-supporting through the sale of the magazine and related items. It receives none of the group contributions sent to the General Service Office.


500

An event for the young or the young at heart.

What is CYSCYPAA?

Fun, fun, fun, and more fun!!!!!

500

What can you do at Saturday at 2:30 pm in Vernon?

What is go to a meeting!  

The Schedules chairperson makes all of this happen.  There is nothing worse than needing a meeting and going to a very dark, very empty church where there is suppose to be a meeting. 

500

The opportunity to serve on the all of the Sober Event committees.  

What is a GSR?

500

The co-founder of AA that had tattoos.  

Who is Bob?