Blitz

Blitz, German for "lightning", may refer to:

Armed conflict

• The Blitz, the German aerial attacks on Britain in WWII. The name Blitz was subsequently applied to many individual bombing campaigns or attacks.
• Blitzkrieg, the "lightning war", a strategy of World War 2 Germany.
  • 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
  • Southampton 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.
• Mr. Blitz (1994-), Guyanese video editor; owner of Blitz Productionz.
• Blitzy (2009-), miniature schnauzer

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
• Blitzball, Final Fantasy X minigame.
• 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.
• Blitz (Final Fantasy VI)

Sports

Gridiron football

• Blitz (American football), a defensive attack in football where several players rush the passer who normally cover running or passing routes.
• Blitz (NFL Mascot), the mascot of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks.
• Bakersfield Blitz, former arena football team.
• Corner Blitz, a group of Michigan State University supporters.
• Chicago Blitz, a USFL gridiron football team.
• London Blitz (American football), a London-based gridiron football team.
• Montreal Blitz, women's gridiron football team.
• Plymouth Blitz (BCAFL), Plymouth University, gridiron football team.
• Syracuse Blitz, former PIFL team.
• The Blitz (television), a TV show on ESPNEWS.
• Zone Blitz, a defensive maneuver in gridiron football.
• Blitz, Channel 4's former American football magazineSEX

Other sports

• Blitz, a two-hand technique in semicontact fighting sports.
• Blitz, a Japanese tuning company which competes in the D1 Grand Prix.
• SV Blitz Breslau, former German soccer team.
• Utah Blitzz, former professional soccer team

Music

• Blitz (band), a British punk rock band
• Blitz (Brazilian band), a new wave Brazilian band from the 1980s
• Blitz (album), 2009 KMFDM studio album
• Blitz (newspaper), a Portuguese music newspaper
• Blitz! (musical), a musical by Lionel Bart based on The Blitz
• Gods of Blitz, German rock band
• It's Blitz!, Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2009 album
• The Ballroom Blitz, song first recorded by the band Sweet
• The Blitz (album), 1984 Krokus album
• The Blitz (thebandwithnoname album), 2002 studio album
• Blitz Show (2010) - Romanian cultural show related to slam poetry, coming with additional features like: literary karaoke, creative writing, lecturing from foreign languages, blitz interview, lies contest, interpretation of theater-like scenario. The show is moderated by the Romanian literary critic Felix Nicolau. Show's web-page: www.blitz-show.com

Anastasia Blitz DJ/Producer New York, USA

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, a character in the upcoming video game Darkspore
• 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, C.O.P.S.
• Zorin Blitz, character from the Manga Hellsing
• Blitz (comics), a Flash-based Big Bang Comics hero
• Blitz (film), a 2010 film
• the Blitz, a character in How I met your Mother, played by Jorge Garcia.

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 (film), an upcoming film
• Blitz (movement), a radical youth movement in Norway
• 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 programme
• The Weekly Blitz, a weekly Bangladeshi newspaper edited by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
• Blitz, a codename for shopping frenzies used by certain retailers
• Blitz, nickname of the Charles Town Race Horse, West Appeal
• Blitz & Pieces, the name of a SegaSonicRadio Livecast, hosted by DJBlitzChris that specialises in Remixes