Alright. Here's what I feel like offering...
1) Go with Joseph Farwell Glidden's invention.
2) For this game's purposes, I believe it is considered a lizard.
3) Go with Bobby.
5) Last name only.
10) Don't worry about the city or state, just think about what country the jalapeno chili pepper comes from.
The rest are easily searchable by the web. This was the hardest out of the trivia triplets, in my opinion. The rest were cake.