Blitz

Blitz, German for "lightning" or "very fast", may refer to:

Contents 1 Armed Conflict 2 People 3 Computing 3.1 Computer Games 4 Sports 4.1 American Football 4.2 Other Sports 5 Music 6 Vehicles 7 Toys and Games 8 Fictional Characters 9 Companies 10 Other

Armed Conflict

• Blitzkrieg, the "very fast executed war", a strategy of World War 2 Germany.
• The Blitz, the German aerial attacks on Britain in WWII. The name Blitz was subsequently applied to many individual bombing campaigns or attacks.
  • Baedeker Blitz, the German reprisal bombing of strategically unimportant, but picturesque, British cities.
  • Barrow Blitz
  • Belfast Blitz (1941)
  • Belfast Bomb Blitz (1972), better known as Bloody Friday. The Provisional IRA set off 22 bombs in Belfast, killing 9 people.
  • Birmingham Blitz
  • Bristol Blitz
  • Cardiff Blitz
  • Coventry Blitz
  • Clydebank Blitz
  • Greenock Blitz
  • Hull Blitz
  • Liverpool Blitz
  • Manchester Blitz
  • Plymouth Blitz
  • Rotterdam Blitz
  • Sheffield Blitz

People

• Andy Blitz (1971-), writer, actor and comedian.
• Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth, American, thrash metal musician.
• David Blitz, philosopher.
• Maurice Blitz (1891 – 1975), Belgian Olympic water polo player.
• Gérard Blitz (entrepreneur) (1912 - 1990) - founder of Club Med.
• Gérard Blitz (sportsman) (1901 - 1979) - swimming and waterpolo Olympic medalist
• Jeffrey Blitz, American film director and screenwriter.
• Johnny Blitz, punk rock drummer.
• Julien Paul Blitz (1885–1951), a Belgian-American conductor.
• Phil Blitz, professional wrestler.
• Rayner Blitz (1968-), cricketer.
• Simon Blitz, British entrepreneur.
• Urban Blitz, British rock musician.
• Wilhelm Biltz (1877-1943), German chemist and scientific editor.

Computing

• Blitz BASIC, a dialect of the BASIC programming language.
• BlitzMail, the internal e-mail network at Dartmouth College.
• Blitz++, a C++ class library for scientific computing.
• Blitz QFD

Computer Games

• Blue Wing Blitz
• Blitz (Computer Game), a bombing game for the Commodore PET.
• Blitz 1941, WW2 based, massively multiplayer, online, real-time strategy game.
• Blitz: The League, an American football game series developed by Midway Games after the National Football League signed an exclusive licensing deal with Electronic Arts.
• Cannonball Blitz
• Cray Blitz, chess program for the Cray supercomputer.
• London Blitz (computer game), a 1983 strategy game for the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64.
• Goal Line Blitz, massively multiplayer, online, American football game.
• NFL Blitz, an American football game series developed by Midway Games.
• Blitz - The name of the ultraviolent sport in the game Deathrow for the Xbox.

Sports

American Football

• Blitz (NFL Mascot), the mascot of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks.
• Blitz (American football), a defensive maneuver in American football.
• Bakersfield Blitz, former arena football team.
• Corner Blitz, a group of Michigan State University supporters.
• Chicago Blitz, a USFL American football team.
• London Blitz (American football), a London-based American football team.
• Montreal Blitz, women's American football team.
• Plymouth Blitz (BCAFL), Plymouth University, American football team.
• Syracuse Blitz, former PIFL team.
• The Blitz (television), a TV show on ESPNEWS.
• Zone Blitz, a defensive maneuver in American football.

Other Sports

• Blitz, a two-hand technique in semicontact fighting sports.
• SV Blitz Breslau, former German soccer team.
• Utah Blitzz, former professional soccer team

Music

• Blitz! (musical), a musical by Lionel Bart based on The Blitz.
• Blitz (band), a British punk rock band.
• Blitz (Brazilian band), a new wave Brazilian band from the 1980's.
• Blitz (newspaper), a Portuguese music newspaper.
• The Ballroom Blitz, song first recorded by the band Sweet.
• Gods of Blitz, German rock band.
• WBZX, 99.7 "The Blitz", common call term used for the Columbus, OH radio station WBZX.

Vehicles

• Arado Ar 234 Blitz, a German, World War 2, jet bomber.
• Bedford Blitz, a truck manufactured by Bedford Vehicles.
• Bertone Blitz, a 1992 electric sports car.
• Opel Blitz, a German light truck built from 1930 to 1973.
• Blitz, nickname for both Ford and Chevrolet Canadian Military Pattern trucks made for use in WW2.

Toys and Games

• Alpha Blitz, word game.
• Blitz chess, a chess game allowing only 5 minutes for each player.
• Blitz (game), card game.
• Dutch Blitz, card game.
• Blitz (Beanie Baby), American football themed, Beanie Baby; produced by Ty, Inc..

Fictional Characters

• Blitz, the alter-ego of the character George in the web comic Bob and George.
• Blitz (character), a fictional anthropomorphic doberman from the action/comedy cartoon Road Rovers
• Blitz, a robot dog from the cartoon, Bowser and Blitz.
• Zorin Blitz, character from the Manga Hellsing.

Companies

• Blitz Games, British computer games company.
• Blitz Soft, a Romanian software company.
• Blitz Research, New Zealand software company.

Other

• All-Star Blitz, 1985, television game-show.
• Alpen Blitz, roller-coaster,
• Blitz, a 1980s night club in London, see Blitz Kids.
• Blitz, the codename of the East German spy, Hüseyin Yıldırım.
• Blitz (movement), a radical youth movement in Norway. They are often compared to the UK anarchists from the 1970's.
• Blitz (magazine), a weekly "what's on" magazine published by Arc @ UNSW at the University of New South Wales.
• Blitz Wolf, 1942, anti-German animation.
• Domestic Blitz, Australian television programme.
• Sportz Blitz, television sports program.
• The Weekly Blitz, a weekly Bangladeshi newspaper edited by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury.

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