This 25-question survey is mostly based on the Harvard Dialect Survey, of 2002. It pinpointed me very accurately as coming from the San Francisco Bay Area. Part of what's fascinating about it is that there are indeed some things for which I have no name, and apparently, neither do many others:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?r=80j420jk040001200j0000400800j1050j0022802002080400&_r=0
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