How do I extract the contents of an rpm?

Question

I have an rpm and I want to treat it like a tarball. I want to extract the contents into a directory so I can inspect the contents. I am familiar with the querying commands

Answer 1

7-zip understands most kinds of archives, including rpm and the included cpio.

Answer 2

In OpenSuse at least, the unrpm command comes with the build package.

In a suitable directory (because this is an archive bomb):

unrpm file.rpm