What word names a powerful handgun or a large bottle of champagne?

A potato famine during the 1840s caused which island's population to fall by about 2 million? Which egg delicacy from Russia and Iran is one of the most expensive foods in the world? A PowerBar contains the oat type of which food, a 1980s cholesterol-fighting craze? Which powerful empire ruled much of Asia Minor and Syria around 1500 B.C.? Maxine Waters, first elected to Congress in 1990, represents which state? What is a practice landing followed by an immediate takeoff called? Complete the typing-practice sentence: "The quick brown fox..."? Who directed the 2006 film "A Prairie Home Companion", his last?