"ON" & "OFF" SONGS
FICTIONAL BOYFRIENDS
A.K.A.
EGYPT
NEW WORDS
200
'It's both the title of Donna Summer's hit of January 1980 & where you could hear it'
"On The Radio"
200
'We don't know if Lois ever complained about him being "faster than a speeding bullet"'
Superman
200
'Much married bandleader Arthur Arshawsky'
Artie Shaw
200
'While the pharaohs built ancient wonders, Ferdinand de Lesseps built this "modern" one'
the Suez Canal
200
'A U.S. Treasury bond called "a James Bond" matures in this year of the next century'
2007
400
'In 1984, comfortably or not, Lionel Richie was "stuck" here'
"On You"
400
'Her man still is Moondoggie'
Gidget
400
'Born Edith Giovanna Gassion, her stage surname was Parisian slang for "sparrow"'
Piaf
400
'Nefertari & Nefertiti were 2 of them'
queens of Egypt
400
'If you're into "heavy breathers", you might have read one of these by Rosemary Rogers or Danielle Steel'
a romance novel
600
'Travel song from 1939 film to which the following 1970s song is equivalent:'
"We\'re Off To See The Wizard"
600
'Lea Thompson, bedding down with this "boyfriend" in a 1986 film really bedded "down"!'
Howard the Duck
600
'Princess Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes of Teck, George V's consort'
Queen Mary
600
'Though union with Syria fell through, Gamal Abdel Nasser continued to call Egypt this'
the United Arab Republic
600
'Canine name for a person who makes a business of smuggling aliens into U.S.'
a coyote
800
'This 1962 #1 hit by Mr. Acker Bilk could be about an alien at the beach'
"Stranger On The Shore"
800
'The millionaire boyfriend about whom Margot Lane might have sung "Me & My Shadow"'
Lamont Cranston
800
'When you say "bonjour" to Francoise Quoirez, call her by this nom de plume'
Françoise Sagan
800
'It's said the Mosque of Ibn Tulun has the only spiral one of these in the world'
a minaret
800
'"Celebrity rot" refers to an aging entertainer's increasing inability to do this'
entertain
1000
'"I'll keep on tryin' & I'll smile when I feel like cryin'" are part of this Stephen Bishop philosophy'
"On And On"
1000
'As Frau Blucher in "Young Frankenstein" she spoke the line, "Yes, yes he was my boyfriend"'
Cloris Leachman
1000
'Born Elizabeth Bloomer, this late bloomer was a divorcee when she married a future president in 1948'
Betty Ford
1000
'Though founded in Cairo in 1945, in 1979 this organization suspended Egypt's membership'
the Arab League
1000
'"Greeny" is slang, not for a little martian, but for anyone concerned about this'
the environment
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