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dialect meme
I've taken these before, but this one is going around again.  And it's not multiple-choice.  #1 and #20 are especially telling for regional origin, not to mention directly related. I'm always really curious with these things because for most of them I have no idea what the alternative answer could be!

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: Bayou  ;)

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called: cart, shopping or grocery

3. A metal container to carry a meal in: lunch box

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: skillet

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people: couch or sofa

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof: gutter

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening: porch, except on some houses it's a veranda because it wraps around.

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: cokes, except for Dr Pepper, which is Dr Pepper (accept no substitutes!)

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup: pancake

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: sub

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: swimming suit or trunks

12. Shoes worn for sports: tennis shoes or sneakers

13. Putting a room in order: having never really done this, I cannot say.  ;)  Cleaning up or arranging, depending on whether there's furniture being moved.

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: fireflies, I guess, except that I don't remember actually seeing these until I went north.

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball: doodle bug

16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down: see-saw

17. How do you eat your pizza?: sideways, so I get some crust with every bite.

18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?: garage sale

19. What's the evening meal?: dinner or supper rather interchangeably

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?:  the what?
(seriously, we have neither basements nor cellars here unless you are a business who can afford the construction/pumping costs. I had never seen a finished basement in a house until I went to college, nor had I ever seen a split-level house.)

21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?: water fountain.