The "What do you call it" meme
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Creek
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Grocery cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunchbox
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Skillet/frying pan (it really depends)
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Couch
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/deck (again, it depends although my family doesn't really use ours)
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Pop
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Sub sandwich
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Bathing suit (I don't think I've ever really called them anything before)
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Tennis shoes
13. Putting a room in order.
Clean
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Potato 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?
By hand but if it's really hot, occasionally with a fork
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage/yard sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement/downstairs (again, we don't really use ours)
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Drinking fountain (and the first time I went to Disney World I could have sworn there was a talking one)