Exceptional things

Bands: Radiohead, Sigur Rós

Board game: Go, aka Baduk, aka 围棋

Book (combinatorial): Triple Systems, Charles J. Colbourn, Alexander Rosa

Book (probabilistic): Probability and Random Processes, Geoffrey Grimmett, David Stirzaker

Beer: Coopers original pale ale

Cake: Red Velvet

Coffee (summer): Iced latte

Coffee (winter): Small extra shot flat white

Coffee (afternoon): Piccolo

Cuisine: Italian

Design: Kirkman triple system of order 9

Goalkeeping glove: Reusch pure contact series

Graph (collection of pair-wise relations): The line graph of the Petersen graph

Graph (display of data): John Snow’s map of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak

Group: A_6

Integers: 11, 41, 13

Language (signed): Auslan

Language (spoken): Danish

Language (typed): Java

Language (typed (dynamically)): Python

Opening (chess): Sicilian

Opening (otherwise): The Gap, Alice Springs

Podcast (comedy): The Headgum Podcast

Podcast (informative): The Skeptics Guide to the Universe

Podcast (mathematics): Opinionated History of Mathematics

Point estimation technique: Maximum likelihood

Refereeing signals: Charge (basketball), Ball (AFL)

Sport (to play): Handball

Sport (to watch): Cricket

Sportsman: Dirk Nowitzki, Patty Mills, Lionel Messi

Sportswoman: Sam Kerr, Ash Gardner

Team (basketball): Real River City

Team (cricket): Brisbane Heat, QLD Bulls

Team (football): SønderjyskE Fodbold, Brisbane Roar FC, Fulham FC

Team (handball): UQ Handball Club

Theorem: Cayley’s Theorem, The Orbit-Stabiliser Theorem

Tournament format: Double-elimination

World Heritage Site: Kronborg, Helsingør

To be avoided if possible

Assignment criterion: ±10% word “limits”

Axiom: Choice

Beer: VB

Integers: 7, 17, 87

Language (spoken): Swedish

Law: Excluded middle

Point estimation technique: Method of Moments

Teams: FC København, Manchester United

Theorem: The Intermediate Value Theorem