Q 01/05

Which Ohio city, nicknamed the Rubber Capital of the World, is where Bill W. and Dr. Bob began AA?

A) Cleveland

B) Akron

C) Dayton

D) Toledo

Answer · why

B) Akron

Akron surgeon Dr. Bob became Bill W.'s first success in 1935, and the city still hosts Founders' Day each June, when thousands of AA members tour its ...

Q 02/05

Which coded phrase do cruise ship schedules use to announce AA meetings without naming the fellowship?

A) Friends of Lois W.

B) Friends of Dr. Bob

C) Friends of Bill W.

D) Friends of Hank P.

Answer · why

C) Friends of Bill W.

Friends of Bill W. lets members spot a meeting on a public schedule, and asking a stranger 'Are you a friend of Bill W.?' is a discreet way to find a ...

Q 03/05

Which drug did Bill W. take in medically supervised experiments from 1956, believing it might help alcoholics?

A) MDMA

B) LSD

C) DMT

D) Peyote

Answer · why

B) LSD

LSD let Bill W. relive, he said, the 1934 spiritual experience that had ended his drinking. Most AA members strongly opposed the experiments, and he n...

Q 04/05

AA co-founders Bill W. and Dr. Bob first met in Ohio, but both men were born in which New England state?

A) Vermont

B) New Hampshire

C) Massachusetts

D) Connecticut

Answer · why

A) Vermont

Vermont was home to both men: Bill W. was born in East Dorset in 1895 and Dr. Bob in St. Johnsbury in 1879, yet they did not meet until both had long ...

Q 05/05

Which short verse, adopted by AA in the early 1940s, asks for the 'courage to change the things I can'?

A) The Lord's Prayer

B) The Serenity Prayer

C) The Third Step Prayer

D) The Prayer of St. Francis

Answer · why

B) The Serenity Prayer

The Serenity Prayer is credited to theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who composed a version in the early 1930s. It spread through the YWCA before AA took i...