From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
      
   > * Game 2, Round 7 - Entertainment - Pre-"Star Wars" Sci-Fi Movies   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   War of the Worlds   
      
   > 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 Oddessy   
      
   > 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   
   >   
   > 1. One type of this plant is used to make ropes, as well as   
   >    hard-wearing, sunlight resistant rugs.  Another type produces   
   >    alcohol.  This plant is native to southern Mexico and northern   
   >    South America   
      
   Hemp   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Cotton   
      
   > 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   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)