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   On 10/7/2025 8:39 PM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 2, Round 7 - Entertainment - Pre-"Star Wars" Sci-Fi Movies   
   >   
   > Before "Star Wars" arrived in 1977, there were other important   
   > science-fiction movies.  In each case, give the movie's title   
   > (in full).   
   >   
   > 1. 1927, directed by Fritz Lang.  Starring Brigitte Helm, Alfred   
   >     Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, and Rudolf Klein-Rogge.  This movie   
   >     presents a highly stylized futuristic city where a beautiful   
   >     and cultured utopia exists above a bleak underworld populated   
   >     by mistreated workers.   
      
   "Metropolis"   
   > 2. 1936, directed by William Cameron Menzies.  Starring Raymond   
   >     Massey, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, and Cedric Hardwicke.   
   >     It's Christmas 1940, and Everytown resident John Cabal fears that   
   >     war is imminent.  When it breaks out, the war lasts 30 years,   
   >     destroying the city and ushering in a new dark age of plagues   
   >     and petty despots.  But there is hope in the form of Wings   
   >     Over the World, a group of pacifist scientists and thinkers.   
   >     Based on a story by H.G. Wells.   
      
   "Things to Come"   
      
   > 3. 1951, directed by Robert Wise.  Starring Michael Rennie, Patricia   
   >     Neal, Hugh Marlowe, and Sam Jaffe.  When a UFO lands in   
   >     Washington, DC, bearing a message for Earth's leaders, all human   
   >     activity stops.  Klaatu has come on behalf of alien life who   
   >     have been watching Cold-War-era nuclear proliferation on Earth.   
   >     But it is Klaatu's robot Gort that presents a more immediate   
   >     threat to onlookers.   
      
   "The Day the Earth Stood Still"   
      
   > 4. 1956, directed by Fred M. Wilcox.  Starring Walter Pidgeon,   
   >     Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, and Warren Stevens.  A spacecraft   
   >     travels to the distant world Altair IV to discover the fate of a   
   >     group of scientists sent there decades earlier.  When Commander   
   >     John J. Adams and his crew arrive, they discover only two people:   
   >     Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira.   
      
   "Fantastic Planet"   
      
   > 5. 1960, directed by George Pal.  Starring Rod Taylor, Alan Young,   
   >     and Yvette Mimieux.  A man's vision for a utopian society is   
   >     disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark   
   >     and dangerous society.  Based on a story by H.G. Wells.   
      
   "The Time Machine"   
      
   > 6. 1966, directed by Richard Fleischer.  Starring Stephen Boyd,   
   >     Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, and Donald Pleasence.  A brilliant   
   >     scientist develops a way to shrink humans, and other objects,   
   >     for brief periods of time.  In order to save this scientist,   
   >     who has developed a blood clot in his brain, a team of his   
   >     colleagues in a nuclear submarine is shrunk and injected into   
   >     the scientist's body.  The team has a limited period of time   
   >     to fix the clot and get out before the miniaturization wears off.   
      
   "Fantastic Voyage"   
      
   > 7. 1968, directed by Stanley Kubrick.  Starring Keir Dullea, Gary   
   >     Lockwood, and William Sylvester.  When a mysterious artifact   
   >     is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans   
   >     (plus others in suspended animation) and one supercomputer is   
   >     sent to Jupiter to find its origins.   
      
   "2001: A Space Odyssey"   
      
   > 8. 1968, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.  Starring Charlton   
   >     Heston, Roddy McDowall, and Kim Hunter.  After being kept   
   >     in hyper-sleep during a long expedition into deep space, an   
   >     astronaut crew crash-lands in the 40th century on a planet   
   >     where highly intelligent non-human simians are dominant and   
   >     humans are enslaved.   
      
   "Planet of the Apes"   
      
   > 9. 1976, directed by Michael Anderson.  Starring Michael York,   
   >     Jenny Agutter, and Richard Jordan.  A police officer in   
   >     the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that   
   >     worships youth.   
      
   "Logan's Run"   
      
   > 10. 1976, directed by Nicolas Roeg.  Starring David Bowie, Candy   
   >     Clark, Buck Henry, and Rip Torn.  Thomas Jerome Newton is an   
   >     alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his   
   >     home planet.  He uses his knowledge of advanced technology   
   >     to create profitable inventions.  While developing a method   
   >     to transport water, he meets a quiet hotel clerk, and begins   
   >     to fall in love with her.  Just as he is ready to leave Earth,   
   >     Thomas is intercepted by the US government, and his entire plan   
   >     is threatened.   
      
   "The Man Who Fell to Earth"   
      
   > * Game 2, Round 8 - Science - Useful Plants   
   >   
   > While there are all kinds of plants around the world, some   
   > plants have made significant contributions to human civilization.   
   > For each of the questions, please provide the *common*, or usual,   
   > name for the plant described.   
   >   
   > 2. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you   
   >     have completed the previous one.  Guvf cynag jnf bevtvanyyl   
   >     nffbpvngrq jvgu grkgvyrf, fuvcf' ebcrf, naq gur unatzna'f abbfr.   
   >     Vg vf fbzrgvzrf nyfb nffbpvngrq jvgu anepbgvpf, naq bevtvangrq   
   >     va Prageny Nfvn.   
      
   hemp   
      
   > 3. This fast-growing, woody evergreen grass can be used in many   
   >     ways, including construction and tea ceremonies.  It can be   
   >     found in most hot, tropical regions, especially East Asia.   
      
   bamboo   
      
   > 4. This is one of the oldest fiber plants in cultivation.  Used by   
   >     the ancient Egyptians to wrap their mummies, and by Neolithic   
   >     tribes in Switzerland to make linen.   
      
   flax   
      
   > 5. This is a wetland sedge that originated in the river basins of   
   >     Ethiopia.  The Egyptians began writing on it about 4,000   
   >     years ago.  It is native to Egypt, Ethiopia, and tropical Africa   
      
   papyrus   
      
   > 7. These plants are also known as "gum trees", and can grow to 10 m   
   >     to 60 m tall.  Products of this plant are used in antiseptics,   
   >     balms, diuretics and disinfectants, as well as in perfumes.   
   >     Found mostly in Australia.   
      
   eucalyptus   
      
   > 8. This rain-forest tree was sometimes known as "weeping wood".   
   >     This "weeping" substance was eventually used to erase mistakes,   
   >     and allow cars and bicycles to roll smoothly.  Native to South   
   >     America.   
      
   rubber   
      
   > 9. Historically, the leaves of this shrub were used to produce a   
   >     blue dye for a variety of fabrics, including denim.  Originally   
   >     native to India; also still found and used in West Africa.   
      
   indigo   
      
   > 10. This pretty, fast-growing, upright annual is thought to be both   
   >     a blessing and a curse.  One product of the seeds of this   
   >     plant is used to ease pain, while another has had "nightmare   
      
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