How are these three crime-mystery authors

connected to one particular work of this sci-fi author?

Cracked by Dibyo , Chandrakant Nair , Rey de Vaqueiros , sidsen , Goyal , varuns88 , Ashwin , Priya , Debasish , akhi , udupendra , madhur , varmaOne , Rohan , Tathagata Chatterjee , Atul Mathew , insufferablejake , BiGFooT and rubhatta.

Dibyo, Chandrakant Nair, Rey de Vaqueiros, sidsen, Goyal, varuns88, Ashwin, Priya, Debasish, akhi, udupendra, madhur, varmaOne, Rohan, Tathagata Chatterjee, Atul Mathew, insufferablejake, BiGFooT and rubhatta

What is this funky device called?

Cracked by Dibyo , gudanggurum , Tathagata Chatterjee , Goyal , Ranjana Ninan , Rohan , Chandrakant Nair , Prasad , malcaluffin , akhi , varuns88 , Priya , rajeshvj and udupendra.

Dibyo, Gurupad, Tathagata Chatterjee, Goyal, Ranjana Ninan, Rohan, Chandrakant Nair, Prasad, malcaluffin, akhi, varuns88, Priya, rajeshvj and udupendra

Guest question from sidsen.

Id this flag that’s been doing the rounds, and explain.

Cracked by udupendra , gudanggurum , Chandrakant Nair , insufferablejake , Goyal , Ranjana Ninan , Nakul , varuns88 , duriel , Debasish , joe (you’re close), Boneywasawarriorwayayix and rajeshvj.

udupendra, Gurupad, Chandrakant Nair, insufferablejake, sidsen, Goyal, Ranjana Ninan, Nakul, varuns88, duriel, Debasish, joe, Boneywasawarriorwayayix and rajeshvj

Who is he and what is that an illustration of?

Cracked by insufferablejake , Chandrakant Nair , kamalrathi , Dibyo , Tathagata Chatterjee , Nakul , sidsen , gudanggurum , rajeshvj , madhur , duriel and malcaluffin.

insufferablejake, Chandrakant Nair, kamalrathi, Dibyo, Tathagata Chatterjee, Nakul, sidsen, Gurupad, rajeshvj, madhur, duriel and malcaluffin

A sitter to start off the week… Which famous experiment is depicted here?

Cracked by Tathagata Chatterjee , sidsen , Dibyo , Rohan , Goyal , insufferablejake , piezocake , Guneet , Vinay , Ananth , VikraM , Sujay , gudanggurum (copy-pasta is not required, mate), Atul Mathew , Nakul , Chandrakant Nair , malcaluffin , duriel , rajeshvj and Prasad; or, in short, almost everyone.

Tathagata Chatterjee, sidsen, Dibyo, Rohan, Goyal, insufferablejake, piezocake, Guneet, Vinay, Ananth, VikraM, Sujay, Gurupad, Atul Mathew, Nakul, Chandrakant Nair, malcaluffin, duriel, rajeshvj and Prasad

What connects these two accidents?

Cracked by varuns88 , Atul Mathew , Goyal , gudanggurum , Rohan , Chandrakant Nair , rajeshvj , Dibyo and piezocake.

varuns88, Atul Mathew, Goyal, Gurupad, Rohan, Chandrakant Nair, rajeshvj, Dibyo and piezocake

Identify

Cracked by Goyal , Rohan , malcaluffin , sidsen and rajeshvj.

Goyal, Rohan, malcaluffin, sidsen and rajeshvj

This wildly popular game was based on a real pastime of the author (and also based on a real place).

Fittingly enough, the game’s name (X) led to the name of another activity (Y) (popular at some universities) that was directly derived from this game.

Which game (X), and what is the activity (Y) called?

Almost everyone got the name of the game. No one got the activity…

Mayukh, that is one awesome box! How in the world did you get your hands on a Kaypro?

And with that, we come to the end of the GQG. Hope you liked it, folks.

We will still keep posting contributed questions every now and then so keep sending in your questions to boiledbeans[at]gmail[dot]com

Proceeding with the GQG, this question comes from akhi.

Identify/Connect/put fundae:

Cracked by Goyal , sidsen , Ananth , Rohan , bobo , varuns88 , insufferablejake and rajeshvj.

Goyal, sidsen, Ananth, Rohan, bobo, varuns88, insufferablejake and rajeshvj