A Knife Less Ordinary
It is typically made of carbon steel, stainless steel, a laminate of both metals, or ceramic.
What is the blade (of a chef's knife)?
This Hollywood actress broke her nose 4 times from surfing.
Who is Cameron Diaz?
It's a measure of the probability that an observed difference could have occurred just by random chance.
What is a p-value?
This is the only continent on which species of ducks are not found.
What is Antarctica?
Baklava is typically made with thin layers of this dough.
What is filo dough?
It's a general-purpose kitchen knife originating in Japan.
What is Santoku?
This Hawaiian city is known as the cradle of surfing civilization.
What is Honolulu?
A form of qualitative research wherein a theory is developed based on the collected data from initial interviews and available documents.
What is Grounded Theory?
This can be referred to as a raft, a team, or a paddling.
What is a group of ducks?
This company's cake mix features a doughboy mascot on the box.
What is Pillsbury?
An area between the blade and the handle of a knife that adds to the stability of the knife.
What is the bolster?
It’s the vertical curvature from the surfboard's tail, right through to the nose.
What is the Rocker?
This approach to statistics has steadily gained ground and is now recognized as a legitimate alternative to the frequentist approach.
What is the Bayesian approach?
They are the two most famous fictional ducks.
This is a BBC Two TV show that first aired in 2010 and has since become very popular.
What is The Great British Bake Off?
A Japanese method of forging the knife blade from a single piece of extremely high-carbon steel.
What is Honyaki?
It was during this war that chemicals and materials that revolutionized the construction of surfboards were invented.
What is WWII?
It's a test that is used to compare whether two groups containing different people are the same or not.
What is the Mann-Whitney test?
This is the average lifespan of a duck.
What is 20 years?
This word refers to the inside texture of a baked good — usually how open or closed the air pockets are.
What is the crumb?
A German knife-making company claiming to sell the most expensive chef's knife in the world ($97k).
What is Nesmuk?
This word is surf slang for an inexperienced surfer, or someone who's no good at surfing.
What is a Barney?
This English statistician is credited as the "genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science."
Who was Ronald Fisher?
The part of the duck that's waterproof.
What are the feathers?
This scarlet-colored cake was originally made with beetroot during WWII.
What is red velvet cake?