Everyday things

Can we guess your region from what you call things?

Flip-flops, cool boxes, traffic lights, roundabouts, car parks, medians, swimwear, bins, alleyways and small shops.

Question 1 of 10

You’re packing rubber toe-post sandals for the beach. What do you call them?

Choose the everyday plural word for the footwear, not a brand or a fashion description.

Only the object names selected here enter the match. Rare local terms can carry more geographic information than several widely shared answers.

This globe-trotter set now adds bins and alleyways to jandals, chilly bins, robots, rotaries, parkades, neutral grounds and togs.

Live-bank answers carry into the full quiz.

Questions from the main bank carry into the full quiz, so you can get a broader regional and celebrity match without answering them twice.