In addition to meteorites falling in a heavy shower, what is a supposed reason for the disturbance on Mars?
100
Leatherhead
To where do the narrator and his wife flee? [her cousins live there]
100
"They're coming!"
What two words trigger the initial stampede?
100
Ogilvy
Who is the "well-known astronomer" mentioned in the middle of Chapter 1?
200
Heat Ray
What device do the Martians use to torch and kill?
200
Mars is old and close to its death.
Why are the Martians invading Earth?
200
The narrator's comments to the curate about the lack of religious comfort during a time of tragedy.
Who says - and in what context - "What good is religion if it collapses under calamity"?
200
9/11
What modern event is eerily prophecied in the following quote: "It was the dawn of the great panic. London, which had gone to bed on Sunday night oblivious and inert, was awakened, in the small hours of Monday morning to a vivid sense of danger"?
200
Stent
Who stands atop the Martian cylinder early in the book?
300
Servant, $ for a carriage, nice furniture
How do we know the narrator and his wife are well-to-do financially?
300
Siren-like howls [Ulla]
What is the sound of Martian communication?
300
Grovers Mill, New Jersey
Where did Orson Welles set the 1938 radio broadcast?
300
From Chapter 1: the narrator's belief that humans should not be shocked or complain that the Martians want to make us extinct.
What is: "Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?"
300
Mrs. Elphinstone
Who does the narrator's brother rescue?
400
Eugenics
H.G. Wells' belief in a superior race.
400
People trampled and crushed to death ... revolvers fired ... people stabbed ... policemen breaking the heads of those they were called in to protect
What is the mass, chaotic exodus from London?
400
Horsell Common
Where does the first Martian cylinder land?
400
"Black Smoke!"
What two words reference the poison gas spewed by the Martian rockets?
400
Schiaparelli
Who studied Mars in the 1800s and reported the terrain full with 'canali'?
500
Mercury Theater, October 30, 1938
What is the name of Orson Welles' radio theater, and on what date did this theater group perform their adaptation of War of the Worlds?
500
Battle of Weybridge
What is the Martian's first major offensive?
500
London
In what city are the 7th-10th Martian cylinder landings?
500
"Eternity! Eternity!"
What is the elderly Salvation Army man yelling more than likely out of delirium?
500
The Artilleryman
Who says, "They wiped us out - simply wiped us out!"