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In the Detroit area, we call them "Michigan lefts"- so when giving directions, we say "Make a Michigan left" which means they have to pass the intersection, go around the boulevard, come back the other way and actually turn RIGHT on the street they want to be on. I've seen a few jughandles, especially of type C, but never had a name for them. I like them MUCH better than traffic circles which I can never figure out. I'm always afraid I'm going to get stuck in the inner circle and keep going around and around, like in European Vacation. You have to drive very aggressively to get in the proper lane in a traffic circle around here.
The people I know who say "buggy" are in Kentucky and Georgia. My SIL also uses "buggy" and she grew up in Texas but has also lived in Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas so I don't know where she picked up the term.
Halloween Eve has been Devil's Night since I was a young child- before Detroit arsonists started setting massive fires on that night. Kids would write with soap on windows, knock on doors and run away, or TP (rolling- as used in some parts of the country) the yard as pranks that night. Once people started setting fires in Detroit, all of that other stuff stopped in the 'burbs. My kids never even asked to go out for Devil's Night. It was never a "thing" for them.
They are tennis shoes here. I rarely hear them called anything else.
Garage sales are more common than yard sales here- if it is a yard sale, it's because they don't have a garage. Rummage sale is sometimes used, but not that often. Those trucks are semis in this part of the world. You'll sometimes hear 18 wheeler, but it's usually a semi.
I answered crayfish, but in reality, I think we'd just call them crabs. I don't think that was an option though.
We've always called the strip between the sidewalk and the road the "boulevard" but that wasn't an option on the survery. The section of grass in the road a "median" but I sometimes hear it referred to as boulevard also.
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