We have a winner!

Yes folks Fuzz got most of the answers correct!
The answers as I have them are as follows :

1. 1. Boxing
2. 2. Niagara Falls. (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)
3. 3. asparagus and rhubarb.
4. 4. baseball.
5. 5. strawberry
6. 6. It grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and
   are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.)
7. 7. dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.
8. 8. period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
9. 9. They're in Minnesota. (The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers, and kept the name when they moved west.)
10. 10. batter hit by a pitch, passed ball, catcher interference, catcher drops third strike, fielder's choice, and being designated as a pinch-runner.
11. 11. lettuce. Watermelon was good but I have seen watermelon sorbet (in the UK) and I have also heard of watercress soup.
12. 12. shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.
    

Of course I hate to tell you all but Fuzz may have to be disqualified, seems he is a regular on the Pro- Pub Quiz circuit. Yes sad to say but the following photograph came into my possession this morning of said Fuzz and his team mates( two funny looking Scottish ginger guys) celebrating in some bar after a recent win.

My souce tells me that they are well known hustlers on the circuit.
They lull opponents into a false sense of security. One of the methods used is to sing silly songs about walking 500 miles ?
How this works for them I don't know but I am told it does.

Fuzz how could you...