Milan/Arnav

Question 1

A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear…bulged

Answer 1

Narrator 1C5, F&F, Superiority of Martians

Question 2

a kind of fascination paralysed my actions…I was a battleground of fear and curiosity

Answer 2

Narrator 1C5 F&F

Question 3

a man with a microscope might scrutinise and study the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water

Answer 3

Narrator 1 C1, Superiority of Martians

Question 4

A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside…
a walking engine of glittering metal

Answer 4

Narrator 1C10 F&F, O&C, Apocalypse

Question 5

a mounted policeman came galloping through the confusion with his hand clasped over his head, screaming

Answer 5

Narrator 1C6 O&C

Question 6

a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel. …. the fear and empire of man had passed away.

Answer 6

Narrator 2C7 Superiority of Martians, O&C, Empire

Question 7

a sort of metallic spider with five jointed, agile legs…its motion was so swift, complex, and perfect that at first I did not see it as a machine

Answer 7

Narrator 2C2 F&F, Superiority, Technology

Question 8

legendary hosts of Goths and Huns, the hugest armies Asia has ever seen, would have been but a drop in that current

Answer 8

Narrator 1C17 Superiority of Martians, O&C

Question 9

A sudden chill came over me…ungovernable terror gripped me

Answer 9

Narrator 1C4 F&F, Apocalypse

Question 10

an uncountable redness mingling with the black of the scorched meadows

Answer 10

Narrator 2C1 Nature , Apocalypse

Question 11

Are we such Apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martian’s warred in the same spirit?

Answer 11

Narrator 1 C1, Arrogance of Man, Empire

Question 12

as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us

Answer 12

Narrator 1 C1, Superiority of Martians

Question 13

blackened as far as one can see, and still giving off vertical streamers of smoke

Answer 13

Narrator 1C2, Apocalypse, Superiority of Martians

Question 14

blank incongruity of this serenity and the swift death flying yonder

Answer 14

Narrator C2, Arrogance of Man, Apocalypse

Question 15

brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers and hardened their hearts

Answer 15

Narrator 1 C1, Superiority of Martians

Question 16

even the railway organisations, were …. guttering, softening, running at last in that swift liquefaction of the social body.

Answer 16

Narrator 1C16 O&C

Question 17

extraordinary intensity of its immense eyes - were at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous

Answer 17

Narrator 1C5, F&F, Superiority of Martians

Question 18

He was as lacking in restraint as a silly woman… this spoiled child of life thought his weak tears in some way efficacious

Answer 18

Narrator 2C3 O&C, religion

Question 19

how can God’s ministers be killed?

Answer 19

Curate 1C13 Religion, Superiority of Martians

Question 20

I believed that the destruction of Sennacherib had been repeated, that God had repented, that the Angel of Death had slain them in the night

Answer 20

Narrator 2C8 religion

Question 21

I ran slantingly and stumbling, for I could not avert my face from these things

Answer 21

Narrator 1C4 F&F

Question 22

I was explainin’ these is vallyble.

vs “Death!” I shouted. “Death is coming! Death!

Answer 22

Narrator 1C12 Money, O&C, F&F

Question 23

infinite complacency, men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter

Answer 23

Narrator 1 C1, Arrogance of Man, Empire

Question 24

intelligences vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us

Answer 24

Narrator 1 C1, Superiority of Martians

Question 25

Flourishing overhead before it descended and smote me out of life

Answer 25

Narrator 1C7 religion

Question 26

It is still a matter of wonder how the Martians are able to slay men so swiftly and so silently

Answer 26

Narrator 1C6 F&F, Superiority of Martians

Question 27

it was glaringly hot, not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind

Answer 27

Narrator 1C3, Nature, Apocalypse

Question 28

it was sweeping round swiftly and steadily, this flaming death, this invisible, inevitable sword of heat

Answer 28

Narrator 1C5 Superiority of Martians, F&F, Religion

Question 29

a stampede - a stampede gigantic and terrible - without order and without a goal....the massacre of mankind

Answer 29

Narrator 1C17 Superiority of Martians, O&C

Question 30

Its bows and arrows against lightening

Answer 30

Narrator 1C12 Superiority of Martians

Question 31

Just like parade it had been a minute before—then stumble, bang, swish!

Answer 31

Artilleryman 1C12 Superiority of Martians, O&C, Empire

Question 32

Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. … It’s a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race

Answer 32

Artilleryman 2C7 O&C, Science/Darwinism

Question 33

London about me gazed at me spectrally. The windows in the white houses were like the eye sockets of skulls...terror seized me

Answer 33

Narrator 2C8 Apocalypse, F&F, nature

Question 34

Never before in the history of warfare had destruction been so indiscriminate and so universal

Answer 34

Narrator 1C11 Superiority of Martians, Technology Apocalypse

Question 35

peculiar V-shaped mouth...gorgon group of tentacles

Answer 35

Narrator 1C4, F&F

Question 36

scarlet and crimson trees towards Kew—it was like walking through an avenue of gigantic blood drops

Answer 36

Narrator 2C6 Apocalypse, nature

Question 37

selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran - a grotesque mingling of profit and panic

Answer 37

Narrator 1C16 O&C, arrogance of mankind

Question 38

slain...;slain as the red wed was being slain; slain....by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.

Answer 38

Narrator 2C8 religion

Question 39

so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity

Answer 39

Narrator 1 C1, Arrogance of Man

Question 40

sticking into the skin of our old planet Earth like a poison dart, was this cylinder

Answer 40

Narrator 1C8 Technology, Apocalypse

Question 41

such an extraordinary effect in unmanning me it had that I ran weeping silently as a child might do

Answer 41

Narrator 1C5 Superiority of Martians, Society, O&C

Question 42

The crowd about the pit had increased, and stood out black against the lemon yellow of the sky

Answer 42

Narrator 1C4, Nature, Apocalypse

Question 43

the first breath of the coming storm of Fear blew through the streets. It was the dawn of the great panic

Answer 43

Narrator 1C14 O&C, Apocalypse

Question 44

The Martian's took as much notice of such advances as we should of the lowing of a cow

Answer 44

Narrator 1C9 Superiority of Martians

Question 45

the strangeness of its coiling flow… the houses of the village rising like ghosts out of its inky nothingness

Answer 45

Narrator 1C15 O&C, apocalypse

Question 46

there might be other men on Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome missionaries

Answer 46

Narrator 1C1 arrogance of man, Empire

Question 47

They must have bolted as blindly as a flock of sheep...two women and a little boy were crushed and trampled

Answer 47

Narrator 1C6 O&C

Question 48

cut every telegraph, and wrecked the railways here and there. They were hamstringing mankind

Answer 48

Narrator 1C17 Superiority of Martians, O&C

Question 49

They were heads—merely heads...a mere selfish intelligence, without any of the emotional substratum of the human being

Answer 49

Narrator 2C2 Superiority of Martians

Question 50

this mysterious death - as swift as the passage of light - would leap...and strike me down

Answer 50

Narrator 1C5 Superiority of Martians, F&F

Question 51

three puffs of green smoke, the deep humming note, and the flashes of flame

Answer 51

Narrator 1C6 F&F, Apocalypse, Superiority of Martians

Question 52

In one night the valley had become a valley of ashes...countless ruins of shattered and gutted houses and blasted and blackened trees

Answer 52

Narrator 1C11 Nature, Apocalypse

Question 53

we're down….We're beat. We're beat. It never was a war, any more than there's war between men and ants

Answer 53

Narrator 2C7 Superiority of Martians, O&C

Question 54

we have sinned, we have fallen short

Answer 54

Curate 2C4 religion

Question 55

with a sort of wonder that, in spite of the infinite danger ... we could yet struggle bitterly for that horrible privilege of sight.

Answer 55

Narrator 2C3 F&F

Question 56

woe unto this unfaithful city. Woe! Woe! Woe! Woe! Woe!

Answer 56

Curate 2C4 religion |biblical - unfaithful and used by Jesus to show separation from God. AO3