Sporcle street suffix game

[1995hoo]

This appears in the "Hot Games Trending Now" list on Sporcle: Street suffixes recognized by the US Postal Service. Be interested to hear how people here do on it. The average score is 19%.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/streetsuffix

[NE2]

(yes, I cheated) it doesn't have plurals like circles.

[kurumi]

47%.  (I'll spoil things by revealing one I didn't get: "Stravenue". These are apparently endemic to Tucson. You can find some by I-10 exit 265 near Benson Hwy. I'd provide a link, but can't find that feature in the New Improved Google Maps UI (see related thread))

[national highway 1]

They don't have 'circuit' or 'link'! 
Real life examples:
Solent Cct
http://goo.gl/maps/LDdxz
Pondage Lk
http://goo.gl/maps/Ezc3X

[1995hoo]

They don't have 'circuit' or 'link'! 
Real life examples:
Solent Cct
http://goo.gl/maps/LDdxz
Pondage Lk
http://goo.gl/maps/Ezc3X

They don't have "close" either, but that's because it's seeking the terms recognized by the USPS and "close" isn't in use in the US much, if at all.

I know of a street called "Gildersleeve Wood" and another called "Cavalier Corridor" (amusingly, the former  is in Charlottesville and the latter is in Northern Virginia). Neither "Wood" nor "Corridor" is on that list.

[froggie]

Surprised "Pond" wasn't on the list.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

It's not a good quiz if it doesn't accept Kyrgyzstan .

Anyway, motorway, really? I thought this word wasn't used in the US...

[pianocello]

Anyway, motorway, really? I thought this word wasn't used in the US...

I've only seen it once: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.487744,-89.0589883,3a,75y,256.63h,96.16t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sV8WJSNl_gn1mcNvaGFL4Jw!2e0

I can't believe I forgot about "hill", especially as I pass this one frequently when I'm home: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5263697,-90.5740631,3a,23.2y,63.56h,85.03t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sQDeU72jeO8P2aAnOaGx7NQ!2e0

[NJRoadfan]

I got 30%, plus they are missing suffixes that appear in my own home town!

[Duke87]

They don't have 'circuit' or 'link'! 
Real life examples:
Solent Cct
http://goo.gl/maps/LDdxz
Pondage Lk
http://goo.gl/maps/Ezc3X

They don't have "close" either, but that's because it's seeking the terms recognized by the USPS and "close" isn't in use in the US much, if at all.

"Close" as a suffix is a British thing, possibly also seen in some other commonwealth countries. It is, however, not a standard in the US.

I know of a Long Close Road in the US.  I cannot confirm but always postulated that the developer wished to simply call it "Long Close" but the powers that be wouldn't allow it since it lacks a USPS recognized suffix. Hence "Long Close Road".

I don't know of anything ending in "Circuit" or "Link" in the US. It would make no more sense to find them in this quiz than it would make to find "Rue", "Chemin", or "Rang" (all of which are common as dirt in Quebec).

[1995hoo]

"Rue" appears in the quiz. Perhaps it's common in Louisiana?

[bassoon1986]

"Rue" appears in the quiz. Perhaps it's common in Louisiana?

Yes, although most of the time the street name becomes redundant. Ex: Rue Lafayette St.
Lafayette, LA does well with having the full French name and the full English name on its signs rather than making it a combination in Frenglish

[Zeffy]

Wow, I was unaware there were so many suffixes for street names... I got 27 before I started scratching my head and thinking "well, what the fuck could another one be?". And then I gave up. Oh well.

[freebrickproductions]

"Rue" appears in the quiz. Perhaps it's common in Louisiana?

Yes, although most of the time the street name becomes redundant. Ex: Rue Lafayette St.
Lafayette, LA does well with having the full French name and the full English name on its signs rather than making it a combination in Frenglish

There's also a Rue Vieux Carre here in Huntsville, AL.

[andrewkbrown]

Rue De La Paix in Cincinnati.

https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.152453,-84.534715&spn=0.001677,0.002642&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=39.15251,-84.535288&panoid=ICss0biF_1a5oSEQiemfpQ&cbp=12,350.23,,1,-0.16

[mrsman]

That was a challenge.  I can't believe there were so many choices.

I got a score of 50 (34%) and I thought that was pretty good.

I came up with the usual and then when I was at about 5 min left, I thought about maybe including some of the suffixes that are in some of the two word city names that I know in the area: spring, grove, garden, heights.

At times I also got a few just by going through the alphabet.  How could there be 7 choices between turnpike and vista?  Well, I got 4 of them.

It's too bad that some of the Spanish choices are unavailable.  Do you know how frequently calle and avenida are used in California?

[NJRoadfan]

In the local area, the following suffixes are used, but don't appear in the game.

-Turn
-Slope

My local area has a ton of non-common suffixes for some odd reason. Ironically the rarest suffix in town is "Street".

[Mr. Matté]

Since the game was about postal suffixes, are there any "________ Rues" in the U.S.?

[Laura]

I got 58/146 - 39% correct.

I got a lot of weird ones (like Ferry and Union) but forgot Avenue (facepalm)

[corco]

Since the game was about postal suffixes, are there any "________ Rues" in the U.S.?

Yeah, I was surprised to see "Rue" in there but not "Calle", "Camino", or "Paseo"- there are several streets in Tucson, including the major arterial Camino Seco, that are designated officially and entirely with Spanish names.