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?

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

This (awesome) question comes from sidsen.

Identify and connect the three images:

(Thanks a bunch for all the questions, mate! Really great stuff! I had a hard time picking one…)

Cracked by: Goyal, Tathagata Chatterjee , Guneet , udupendra , gammafunction , Rohan , duriel , malcaluffin and rajeshvj.

Goyal, Tathagata Chatterjee, Guneet, sidsen, udupendra, gammafunction, Rohan, duriel, malcaluffin and rajeshvj

The GQG goes on! This question is from duriel.

Identify the character in (1) and the old chap on the left in (2).

Also, who/what did (1) eventually become?

Only (partially) cracked by Tathagata Chatterjee!

duriel and Tathagata Chatterjee

(On with the GQG - This question comes from shenoyvarun86)

Who is this famous computer scientist, and what term did he coin?

Here’s a clue to narrow in on the term a bit: the man caricatured below wanted to make a movie about it, but couldn’t.

Cracked by sidsen , Goyal , Rohan , udupendra , insufferablejake , Guneet , Srivats , gudanggurum , bobo , rajeshvj , Atul Mathew , duriel , malcaluffin , jayanth , gammafunction and Tathagata Chatterjee.

sidsen, Goyal, Rohan, udupendra, insufferablejake, Guneet, Srivats, Gurupad, bobo, rajeshvj, Atul Mathew, duriel, malcaluffin, jayanth, gammafunction and Tathagata Chatterjee

(Carrying on with the GQG - Here’s a question from jayanth )

Who’s the guy in the pic below and what did he win?

Clue:

Cracked by rajeshvj , akhi , insufferablejake (nice catch! I didn’t notice it…) , Rohan , gudanggurum , svgreatest , Dibyo , Apurva , Atul Mathew , udupendra , duriel , malcaluffin , sidsen and Goyal.

rajeshvj, akhi, insufferablejake, Rohan, Gurupad, svgreatest, Dibyo, Apurva, Atul Mathew, udupendra, duriel, malcaluffin, sidsen and Goyal

(Question from Dibyo)

Oceanography got a boost from a storm that hit in Jan 1992. The flow of events is depicted in this image:

What happened during the storm?

Cracked by WikiWaki , sidsen , gudanggurum , Srivats , Guneet , rajeshvj , akhi , malcaluffin , insufferablejake , madhur , Ananth and shenoyvarun86.

WikiWaki, sidsen, Gurupad, Srivats, Guneet, rajeshvj, akhi, malcaluffin, insufferablejake, madhur, Ananth, shenoyvarun86 and Dibyo