1. What is the current name of the telecommunications company which started life in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation 
2. Research in Motion, the wireless device company which produces the BlackBerry has its headquarters in which country
3. A Japanese spacecraft known as "Hayabusa" is expected to return to earth on June 13, with samples of asteroid dust.  What does Hayabusa mean in English
4. Beginning with the letter "T", what name is given to the degree to which a substance is able to damage an exposed organism.  The skull and crossbones is a common symbol
5. What name is given to the device often used in physics classes to demonstrate the principles of hydraulics and pneumatics.  It is a hydraulic machine invented by a first century mathematician and physicist which is often confused as a perpetual motion machine
6. What name, beginning with the "P" is often given to the smallest gear in a gear drive train
7. Introduced around 1750 by Joseph Black, what is the expression which describes the amount of energy released or absorbed by a chemical substance during a change of state that occurs without changing its temperature.  The term is derived from the latin "latere"
8. Is a Hoopoe a - bonnet, a bangle or a bird
9. What is the name of a line joining two non consecutive vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, tho' the name is often given to any sloping line
10. What is the Chemical element whose name is derived from the Greek word meaning "Pale Green"
    

Bonus Question


What am I

I am a mineral
I am an allotrope of carbon
I am an electrical conductor
I am the most stable form of carbon, under standard conditions
I may be considered to be the highest grade of coal, although I am not generally used as a fuel because I am difficult to ignite
There are 3 principle types of me, Crystalline, Amorphous and Lump
I was used by the 4th millennium B.C. to create ceramic paint for pottery decoration
Around 1500AD, a large source of me was discovered in Cumbria, England and the local population used it to mark sheep
I was named in 1789 by Abraham Gottlob Werner and my name comes from the Greek "graphein" meaning "to draw/write"
I am commonly used in pencils and called lead

 

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What am I -I am Graphite