Black Jack

Blackjack is a popular casino-gambling card game.

Black Jack or Blackjack may also refer to:

Places

Australia

• Black Jack, Queensland, a locality in Queensland
• Black Jack, a civil parish of Pottinger County, New South Wales
• Black Jack Hill, near Gunnedah, New South Wales

United States

• Black Jack (Red Oak, North Carolina), a historic plantation house near Red Oak, Nash County, North Carolina
• Black Jack, Kansas
• Black Jack, Kentucky
• Black Jack, Missouri, city in St. Louis County
• Blackjack, Missouri, an unincorporated community in St. Clair County
• Blackjack, Cherokee County, Texas
• Blackjack, Smith County, Texas

People

• Black Jack (nickname)
• Ada Blackjack (1898–1983), Inuit woman
• Roddy Blackjack (c. 1920–2013), Canadian elder and former Chief of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation of the Yukon Territory
• Blackjack Lanza (born 1935), ring name of former professional wrestler John Lanza
• Blackjack Mulligan (1942–2016), ring name of former professional wrestler Robert Jack Windham
• "Blackjack" Hoss Taylor, a professional wrestler from All-Star Wrestling

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Black Jack (manga character), the main character of the 1973 manga series of the same name
• Blackjack (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers universe

Films

• Black Jack (1927 film), an American silent Western film
• Black Jack (1950 film), written and directed by Julien Duvivier
• Black Jack (1968 film), a Spaghetti Western directed by Gianfranco Baldanello
• Black Jack (1979 film), by Ken Loach
• Blackjack (1978 film), an American crime drama film
• Blackjack (1990 film), directed by Colin Nutley
• Blackjack (1998 film), a TV movie directed by John Woo
• BlackJack (film series) (2003–2007), a series of Australian seven TV movies starring Colin Friels

Games and cards

• Black Jack (card game), also known as Switch, a name given to some variations of Crazy Eights in United Kingdom
• Black jack, a playing card jack
• Blackjack (Atari 2600 video game), a video game cartridge developed by Atari
• Blackjack, an NES video game developed by Odyssey Software; See American Video Entertainment
• Chinese Blackjack, a game also known as 21-point

Literature

• "Black Jack", a short story by Rudyard Kipling in the collection Soldiers Three
• Black Jack, a 2003 novel by Finnish writer Reijo Mäki

Music

• Blackjack, a 21-note scale in the miracle temperament

Groups

• Black Jack (Chilean band), a Chilean rock band
• Black Jack (Australian band), an Australian heavy metal band
• Blackjack (American band), an American rock band featuring Michael Bolton, Bruce Kulick, Sandy Gennaro and Jimmy Haslip
• BlackJack (Swedish band), a Swedish dansband

Albums

• Blackjack (Blackjack album), the eponymous debut album of the American rock band Blackjack
• Blackjack (Donald Byrd album), a 1968 album by jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd

Songs

• "Black Jack", a song by The Hives from the album Barely Legal
• "Black Jack", a song by Junkie XL from the album Big Sounds of the Drags
• "Black Jacks", a song by Girls Aloud from the album Tangled Up
• "Blackjack", a song by Airbourne from the album Runnin' Wild
• "Blackjack", a song by Ray Charles released on the album Yes Indeed!
• "Blackjack", a song by Everclear from the album Slow Motion Daydream
• "Blackjack", a song by Death Grips from the album The Money Store

Television

• "Black Jack" (Jericho episode), a 2007 episode of the television series Jericho
• "Blackjack", season 4, episode 12 of Fear the Walking Dead
• "BlackJack", an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants
• "Blackjack", an episode of the TV series The Adventures of Ellery Queen

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Black Jack (manga), a 1973 manga and anime series

Brands and enterprises

• Black Jack (confectionery), aniseed flavour chews
• Black Jack (gum), a brand of chewing gum
• BlackJack (phone), a mobile phone made by Samsung
  • BlackJack II (phone), a mobile phone made by Samsung
• Blackjack Pizza, a chain of pizza delivery restaurants in Colorado, US

Military and law enforcement

• Black Jack (horse), served in the Caisson Platoon
• Battle of Black Jack, a battle in Kansas preceding the American Civil War
• National Society of Blackjacks, a High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps leadership program
• RQ-21 Blackjack, a small tactical unmanned air system
• "The Black Jack Brigade", nickname of the U.S. 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division
• Tupolev Tu-160 (NATO reporting name: Blackjack), a Russian bomber
• VMF-441, nicknamed The Blackjacks, a United States Marine Corps fighter squadron

Science

• Black jack (fish), a gamefish
• Blackjack oak or Quercus marilandica, a small tree
• Black jack, a common fig cultivar
• Black jack, often weedy species of the genus Bidens from the family of Asteraceae
• Sphalerite, a mineral sometimes called black-jack by miners

Weapons

• Blackjack (weapon), a hand weapon typically consisting of a piece of leather-enclosed metal with a strap or springy shaft for a handle
• Baton (law enforcement) or "Blackjack", a small easily concealed club weapon

Other uses

• Black Jack (stamp), a United States postage stamp
• STV Black Jack, a 1904 Canadian brigantine sailing ship
• The Blackjacks, a professional wrestling tag team

See also

• Blak Jak (born 1983), American rapper
• BLK JKS, signifying Black Jacks, South African rock band
• Jack Black (born 1969), American actor