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Quoted in Bartlets
100

Hoosier who created such radio and TV charcters as Freddie the Freeloader & Clem Kadiddlehopper 

Red Skelton

100

The title object being sought in Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October" is one of these

a submarine

100

Mickey or Minnie's mansion

a mouse house

100

1893:
Fashion fastener

the zipper

100

"Bartlett's" cites this Monty Python song: "I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers"

"The Lumberjack Song"

200
This first governor of Indiana, who had a county named after him, was a heavy drinker, and served as the president of the convention to craft Indiana's constitution.

Jonathan Jennings

200

In Nevil Shute's "A Town Like Alice", a young woman survives WWII in Asia & then starts a new life in this country's bush

Australia

200

An odd group of connected mountains

a strange range

200

1569:
Mercator's masterpiece

a map

200

Sarah Palin at the 2008 RNC:
"You know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?" This

lipstick

300

Indiana University's Lilly Library has a first edition of this, printed at London in 1611

The King James Bible

300

In addition to the tales of his fabled detective, this man penned "The White Company", an adventure of the Middle Ages

Arthur Conan Doyle

300

Calamitous sleight of hand

tragic magic

300

1942:
Prompt pilot purger patented

an ejection seat

300

From his "Lady Windermere's Fan":
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes"

Oscar Wilde

400

He was first seen in Brazil, Indiana in 1913; he was last seen outside a Michigan restaurant in 1975

Jimmy Hoffa

400

In the future soldiers like Johnny Rico fight alien "bugs" in this Robert Heinlein sci-fi novel

Starship Troopers

400

Down at the docks, he clips your locks

the harbor barber

400

1852:
Otis' okay origination

an elevator

400

This British mathematician for "I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'"

(Alan) Turing

500

A real high point of Indianapolis is this Hoosier poet's grave & monument, atop the city's highest point

James Whitcomb Riley

500

A father & son try to avoid marauding cannibals on their trek in this Cormac McCarthy novel

The Road

500

A thick cup for tea on a small, powerful boat that likes to push or pull

a mug tug

500

1924:
Current cutoff contraption

a circuit breaker

500

Inscribed on Woody Guthrie's guitar:
"This machine kills" these

fascists