"Here's how my pea brain works. At the roughly <a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hppbxV9C63g&amp;t=28m00s"">28:00</a> mark", he mentions that the word regatta was dropped from the test due to the cultural aspect of sailing. That makes complete sense to me as a sailor. My error is that I read too much into the question. What is a regatta? ....a sailing race typically among small boats, easy. Unfortunately, my mind tells me to go deeper "what is a regatta?" I look at that and think well, the obvious answer is too easy so they must be after something deeper and I look to the etymology of the word and think that i need to offer a more complete answer such as, "A regatta is a series of boat races. The term comes from the Venetian language, with regata meaning "contest" and typically describes racing events of rowed or sailed water craft, although some powerboat race series are also called regattas." To my mind this is the more complete answer. I am not a good test taker due to this "error". I tend to over complicate things or try to understand the reasoning behind the question rather than just providing the simple answer.