Twelfth Step Within Format for Information Gathering “Ideas that Work”

Type of Project

Humor

Project Name

OA Trivia

Project Goal

To create laughter

Organizing Service Body

Individual

Contact Information

Susan S. (sharabi4@bezeqint.net), Israel, Region Nine

Resources Needed (budget, volunteers, materials, etc.)

Workshop with trivia questions (answers provided). Examples attached.

Implementation Process (including length of time for planning and implementation)

Publicize the workshop

Results

FUN!!

OA Trivia Questions

  1. Where did the Serenity Prayer come from?
  2. In “Just For Today” we read ”I will save myself from 2 pests: __________?”
  3. Who told Rozanne that she could start an organization for compulsive overeaters?
  4. Who said “Keep it simple”?
  5. In “The Promises” we read “We will not regret the past nor __________?”
  6. When and where did the first OA meeting take place?
  7. In which step do we continue to take personal inventory?
  8. What helped to advertise, greatly, OA?
  9. What is Tradition Three?
  10. Which book contains stories of recovery from relapse?
  11. Where was OA’s first World Service Office (GSO)?
  12. When was the AA Big Book published?
  13. What was the first piece of OA literature?
  14. Where does it say that every OA group is self-supporting?
  15. When was the first directory of OA meetings (times & places) printed?
  16. When did they “allow” men into OA?
  17. How many delegates were present at the first National OA Conference in Los Angeles in August, 1962?
  18. “How It Works” comes from what chapter of what book?
  19. “Principles before Personalities” is found where?
  20. How many years was the AA Twelve and Twelve book used at OA meetings?
  21. What was born in October, 1965?
  22. What was the purpose of the book (in 1968) “I Put My Hand in Yours”?
  23. What region is OA __________ (name a state or country) part of?
  24. When did Bill W. begin writing the Big Book/Alcoholics Anonymous?
  25. Which OA book shares OA members’ experience, strength, and hope?

OA Trivia Answers

  1. An AA member (Jack C) read an obituary notice with the Serenity Prayer in the NY Herald Tribune in 1941. He brought it to the New York AA office and …
  2. “Hurry and indecision.”
  3. Jim W, founder of Gamblers Anonymous, in 1959 (also a member of AA).
  4. Dr. Bob.
  5. “Wish to shut the door on it.”
  6. January 19, 1960, Hollywood, California – Rozanne, Jo, and Bernice.
  7. Step Ten.
  8. On a program of the Paul Coates show in November, 1960. Rozanne, Barbara, and the five other members were interviewed on the show.
  9. “The only requirement for OA membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively.”
  10. A New Beginning.
  11. In Rozanne’s dining room.
  12. April, 1939.
  13. A booklet, written in December, 1960, with “How it Can Help You”, “12 Steps”, “How it came into Being”, “12 Unifying Rules” (Twelve Traditions), and an open letter.
  14. Tradition Seven.
  15. July 29, 1961.
  16. July, 1962 (A G – an oilman from Texas).
  17. Fifteen delegates from OA’s 21 groups, plus Rozanne representing the OA GSO.
  18. Chapter 5, Big Book.
  19. Tradition Twelve.
  20. 27 years.
  21. OA Lifeline, from 1962 – Bulletin.
  22. To help newcomers / groups in their search for stability and strength.
  23. If you don’t know, look in the OA website for answer.
  24. May, 1938.
  25. “Abstinence.”