oddball vs unknown quantity

oddball

noun
  • An eccentric or unusual person. 

  • A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant. 

adj
  • Exotic, not mainstream. 

unknown quantity

noun
  • A person or thing whose nature or value is a mystery. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see unknown, quantity. 

How often have the words oddball and unknown quantity occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )