Blitz

Armed conflict

• The Blitz
  The Blitz
  The Blitz was the sustained strategic bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, during the Second World War. The city of London was bombed by the Luftwaffe for 76 consecutive nights and many towns and cities across the country followed...
  
  , the German aerial attacks on Britain in WWII. The name Blitz was subsequently applied to many individual bombing campaigns or attacks.
• Blitzkrieg
  Blitzkrieg
  For other uses of the word, see: Blitzkrieg Blitzkrieg is an anglicized word describing all-motorised force concentration of tanks, infantry, artillery, combat engineers and air power, concentrating overwhelming force at high speed to break through enemy lines, and, once the lines are broken,...
  
  , the "lightning war", a strategy of World War 2 Germany

People

• Andy Blitz
  Andy Blitz
  Andrew "Andy" Blitz is an American comedian and writer best known for his sketch comedy and writing work on the late-night talk show Late Night with Conan O’Brien, where he earned 7 Emmy nominations. Blitz was born in New York City, grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey and graduated from Columbia...
  
   (born 1971), writer, actor and comedian
• Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth, American thrash metal musician
• David Blitz
  David Blitz
  David Blitz has been a faculty member at Central Connecticut State University since 1989. His areas of teaching and research are the history and philosophy of science, with special interest in theories of evolution and modern logic, as well as the work of Charles Darwin and Bertrand Russell...
  
  , philosopher
• Maurice Blitz
  Maurice Blitz
  Maurice Blitz was a Belgian Olympic water polo player during 1920s.He was the older brother of sporting champion Gérard Blitz, and father of Gérard Blitz who founded Club Med in 1950....
  
   (1891–1975), Belgian Olympic water polo player
• Gérard Blitz (entrepreneur)
  Gérard Blitz (entrepreneur)
  Gérard Blitz was a Belgian water polo player and Yogi.Born in Antwerp, he was the son of Maurice Blitz and nephew of Gérard Blitz, both members of the Belgian water polo national team who won Olympic medals....
  
   (1912–1990), founder of Club Med
• Gérard Blitz (swimmer) (1901–1979), swimming and waterpolo Olympic medalist
• Jeffrey Blitz
  Jeffrey Blitz
  Jeffrey Blitz is an American film director, producer and screenwriter from Ridgewood, New Jersey. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his 2002 documentary, Spellbound and he won the Dramatic Directing Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for his 2007 film, Rocket Science.Blitz won the 2009...
  
  , American film director and screenwriter
• Jekuthiel Blitz
  Jekuthiel Blitz
  Jekuthiel ben Isaac Blitz was a rabbi in Wittmund, Germany, who was a translator of the Hebrew Bible into Yiddish. He was commissioned by Amsterdam printer Uri Fayvesh to make a translation which Fayvesh finished printing in late 1678.-References:...
  
  , translator of Bible into Yiddish 1678
• Johnny Blitz
  Johnny Blitz
  John Madansky, known as Johnny Blitz, is a punk rock drummer from Cleveland, Ohio, best known as being a member of the bands The Dead Boys and Rocket From The Tombs. With the Dead Boys he helped pioneer the punk rock sound, look and attitude of the mid to late 1970s.A Boston Globe retrospective...
  
  , punk rock drummer
• Julien Paul Blitz
  Julien Paul Blitz
  Julien Paul Blitz was an American cellist, conductor, and teacher. He was the first music director of the Houston Symphony.-Biography:...
  
   (1885–1951), Belgian-American conductor
• Phil Blitz
  Phil Blitz
  Philip Cartner , better known by his ring name Bubblegum, is a British professional wrestler. He has wrestled in many independent promotions within the United Kingdom but he is perhaps best known for his work in Norton British Wrestling, and his television exposer with Frontier Wrestling Alliance,...
  
   (born 1984), professional wrestler
• Rayner Blitz
  Rayner Blitz
  Rayner John Blitz, born at Watford, Hertfordshire on 25 March 1968, was a cricketer who played five first-class matches and one List A match for Somerset in 1986.-References:...
  
   (born 1968), cricketer
• Simon Blitz
  Simon Blitz
  Simon Blitz is an English businessman who is the former chairman of Oldham Athletic of Football League One. He is one of three businessmen who purchased Oldham in 2003, along with Simon Corney and Danny Gazal. On 7 July 2010, he stepped down as chairman of Oldham, along with Gazal, citing personal...
  
  , British entrepreneur
• Urban Blitz
  Urban Blitz
  Urban Blitz is best known for his electric violin, baritone violectra and lead guitar work with the 1970s London protopunk art rock band Doctors of Madness....
  
   (born 1951), British rock musician
• Wilhelm Biltz
  Wilhelm Biltz
  Wilhelm Biltz was a German chemist and scientific editor. Wilhelm Biltz was the son of Karl Friedrich Biltz who was a scientist of literature and theatre critic...
  
   (1877–1943), German chemist and scientific editor

Computing

• Blitz BASIC
  Blitz BASIC
  Blitz BASIC refers to the programming language dialect that was interpreted by the first Blitz compilers, devised by New Zealand-based developer Mark Sibly. Being derived from BASIC, Blitz syntax was designed to be easy to pick-up for beginners first learning to program...
  
  , a dialect of the BASIC programming language
• BlitzMail
  BlitzMail
  BlitzMail is an e-mail system used at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. It was one of the earliest e-mail server/client packages. It became instantly popular at the college as a result of its simplicity and power, appealing to even the most inexperienced users...
  
  , the internal e-mail network at Dartmouth College
• Blitz++
  Blitz++
  Blitz++ is a high-performance vector mathematics library written in C++. This library is intended for use in scientific applications that might otherwise be implemented with Fortran or MATLAB....
  
  , a C++ class library for scientific computing

Video games

• Blitz (video game), a bombing game for the Commodore Vic-20
• Blitz: The League
  Blitz: The League
  Blitz: The League is an American football game by Midway as an unlicensed extension of their NFL Blitz series. Released after the NFL signed an exclusive licensing deal with Electronic Arts, it was released in October 2005 for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Lawrence Taylor, who provides voice acting...
  
  , a 2005 American football game series developed by Midway Games
• Cray Blitz
  Cray Blitz
  Cray Blitz was a computer chess program written by Robert Hyatt, Harry Nelson, and Albert Gower to run on the Cray supercomputer. It was derived from "Blitz" a program that Hyatt started to work on as an undergraduate. "Blitz" played its first move in the fall of 1968, and was developed...
  
  , chess program for the Cray supercomputer
• Goal Line Blitz
  Goal Line Blitz
  Goal Line Blitz is a browser-based, American football massive multiplayer online role playing game . Goal Line Blitz was created by Peter and Jesse, known in-game as Bort and DigitalDaggers, respectively....
  
  , massively multiplayer, online, American football game
• NFL Blitz
  NFL Blitz
  NFL Blitz is a series of American football themed video games by Midway featuring the teams of the National Football League. It began as a 1997 arcade game but was eventually ported to home consoles and spawned several sequels...
  
  , a 1997 American football game series developed by Midway Games
• Blitz (Final Fantasy VI)
• Blitz, one of the 25 unlockable characters in Maxis's Action RPG Darkspore
  Darkspore
  Darkspore is a video game in the original Darkspore universe that borrows the award-winning creature editor technology from the 2008 video game Spore...
  
  

Gridiron football

• Blitz (American football)
  Blitz (American football)
  In American football or Canadian football, a blitz or red dog is when players on or behind the line of scrimmage during a play, are sent across the scrimmage line to the offensive side to try to tackle the quarterback or disrupt his pass attempt...
  
  , a defensive attack in football where several defensive players who normally cover running or passing routes rush the passer
• Blitz (mascot), the mascot of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks
• Bakersfield Blitz
  Bakersfield Blitz
  The Bakersfield Blitz were a professional arena football team based in Bakersfield, California. They are a 2004 expansion member of the af2 and play their home games at Rabobank Arena....
  
  , former arena football team
• Corner Blitz, a group of Michigan State University supporters
• Chicago Blitz
  Chicago Blitz
  The Chicago Blitz were a professional American football team that played in the United States Football League in the mid 1980s. They played at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois.- Team history :...
  
  , a USFL gridiron football team
• London Blitz (American football)
  London Blitz (American football)
  London Blitz are a British American football team based in North London at Finsbury Park athletics stadium.- Overview :The Blitz field a senior team in the BAFA Community Leagues Premiership as well as youth teams. The roster has included both local players as well as players from North America,...
  
  , a London-based gridiron football team
• Montreal Blitz
  Montreal Blitz
  The Montreal Blitz is a team in the Independent Women's Football League. Based in Montreal, Quebec, the Blitz play their home games at Dalbé-Viau High School in the borough of Lachine...
  
  , women's gridiron football team
• Syracuse Blitz
  Syracuse Blitz
  The Syracuse Blitz was a Professional Indoor Football League team that played one exhibition game in 1998 and was going to join the league officially in 1999....
  
  , former PIFL team
• The Blitz (ESPNEWS)
  The Blitz (ESPNEWS)
  The Blitz, which debuted on the first day of the 2005 NFL season , airs on ESPNEWS, mainly during the NFL season on Sundays, from 1:00pm ET to 10:00pm ET...
  
  , a TV show on ESPNEWS
• Zone blitz
  Zone blitz
  The zone blitz is a common method of defensive pressure applied in American football, usually at the collegiate and professional levels. It exists in nearly limitless permutations, all of which share the common theme of confusing the offensive line by dropping pass-rushers into coverage, while at...
  
  , a defensive maneuver in gridiron football

Other sports

• Blitz, a Japanese tuning company which competes in the D1 Grand Prix
  D1 Grand Prix
  The , abbreviated as D1GP and subtitled Professional Drift, is a production car drifting series from Japan. After several years of hosting amateur drifting contests, Option magazine & Tokyo Auto Salon founder Daijiro Inada, and drifting legend Keiichi Tsuchiya hosted a professional level drifting...
  
  
• SV Blitz Breslau, former German soccer team
• Utah Blitzz
  Utah Blitzz
  Utah Blitzz was a professional soccer team in the USL Second Division. It withdrew following the 2004 season, after winning the championship.-Year-by-year:...
  
  , former professional soccer team

Music

• Blitz, a band formed in 1993 by former Ultravox
  Ultravox
  Ultravox is a British New Wave rock band. They were one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the late 1970s/early 1980s. The band was particularly associated with the New Romantic and New Wave movements....
  
   members John Foxx and Robin Simon
• Blitz (band)
  Blitz (band)
  Blitz was a street punk band from New Mills, Derbyshire, England. They had success in the United Kingdom indie charts in the early 1980s. With both punk and skinhead members, they were enthusiastically championed by Sounds magazine writer Garry Bushell, though guitarist Nidge would later go on to...
  
  , a British punk rock band
• Blitz (Brazilian band)
  Blitz (Brazilian band)
  Blitz is a Brazilian rock band. The band was the first to achieve mainstream success and to have hit singles kick-starting the 1980s movement that would later be called "BRock"...
  
  , a new wave Brazilian band from the 1980s
• Blitz (album)
  Blitz (album)
  Blitz is industrial rock group KMFDM's sixteenth studio album. It was released on March 24, 2009, on the band's record label KMFDM Records and Metropolis Records. It also marks the first use of five letter song titles and a five letter album title since WWIII. "Bait and Switch" contains lyrics from...
  
  , 2009 KMFDM studio album
• Blitz (newspaper)
  Blitz (newspaper)
  Blitz is a Portuguese music newspaper. It was founded in November 1984.In July 2002, the newspaper was acquired by Impresa, which gave the newspaper access to more advanced technology, like color treatment, starting a new phase in the life of the newspaper....
  
  , a Portuguese music newspaper
• Blitz! (musical), a musical by Lionel Bart based on The Blitz
• Gods of Blitz
  Gods of Blitz
  Gods of Blitz is a rock band founded in Berlin. They perform a pop-friendly style of indie rock, with strong punk and metal influences.-History:...
  
  , German rock band
• It's Blitz!
  It's Blitz!
  It's Blitz! is the third studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released March 9, 2009 on Interscope Records. It was originally set for release on April 13, 2009, however after being leaked to the internet on February 22, the release date was pushed forward to March 9 for the...
  
  , Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2009 album
• "The Ballroom Blitz",a 1973 song first recorded by the band Sweet
• The Blitz (Krokus album), 1984
• The Blitz (Thebandwithnoname album)
  The Blitz (Thebandwithnoname album)
  The Blitz is the début album from Christian band Thebandwithnoname, released in August 2002.-Track listing:# "The Blitz"# "Faster"# "Amazing Grace"# "TTWIMTB"# "Radio Fresh" # "Take Up The Tempo"# "Ramp" # "Will You Ever"...
  
  , 2002

Toys and games

• Alpha Blitz
  Alpha Blitz
  Alpha Blitz is a word game designed by Mike Selinker and published by Wizards of the Coast. Alpha Blitz is based on the concept of a letter bank, as players make words using the letter cards on the table as many times as they like...
  
  , word game
• Blitz chess
  Blitz chess
  Fast chess, also known as blitz chess, lightning chess, sudden death, speed chess, bullet chess and rapid chess, is a type of chess game in which each side is given less time to make their moves than under the normal tournament time controls of 60 to 180 minutes per player.-Overview:The different...
  
  , a chess game allowing only 5 minutes for each player
• Blitz (game), card game
• Dutch Blitz
  Dutch Blitz
  Dutch Blitz is a fast-paced, family oriented, action card game played with a specially printed deck. The game was created by Werner Ernst George Muller, a German immigrant from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The game is very popular among the Pennsylvania Amish and Dutch community, and among Christian...
  
  , card game
• Blitz, an American football themed Beanie Baby
  Beanie Baby
  A Beanie Baby is a stuffed animal, made by Ty Warner Inc., which was later renamed as Ty Inc. in late 1993. Each toy has an inner "posable lining" and is stuffed with plastic pellets rather than conventional stuffing , giving Beanie Babies a flexible feel.The original nine Beanie Babies launched...
  
  

Characters

• Blitz, the alter-ego of the character George in the web comic Bob and George
  Bob and George
  Bob and George was a sprite-based webcomic which parodied the fictional universe of Mega Man. It is written by David Anez, a physics instructor who lives in the American Midwest. The comic first appeared on April 1, 2000 and ran until July 28, 2007...
  
  
• Blitz (character), a fictional anthropomorphic doberman from the action/comedy cartoon Road Rovers
• Blitz, a robot dog from the cartoon, C.O.P.S.
  C.O.P.S.
  C.O.P.S. is an American animated television series released by DIC Entertainment and Celebrity Home Entertainment...
  
  
• Zorin Blitz, character from the Manga Hellsing
• Blitz (comics)
  Blitz (comics)
  Blitz is Big Bang Comics' homage to Flash.-Fictional character history:Earth AJimmy Travis was a lady man-race car driver. One day, he was pushed off road by a fellow racer, Helmut Schletman. He discover an abandoned former-Nazi lab containing a suit label "Ubermensch" and a chemical labeled...
  
  , a Flash
  Flash (comics)
  The Flash is a name shared by several fictional comic book superheroes from the DC Comics universe. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert, the original Flash first appeared in Flash Comics #1 ....
  
  -based Big Bang Comics hero
• Blitz, the villain in the 2011 film
  Blitz (film)
  Blitz is a 2011 crime film directed by Elliott Lester and starring Jason Statham, Paddy Considine, Aidan Gillen and David Morrissey. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ken Bruen, which features his recurring characters Detective Sergeant Tom Brant and Chief Inspector James...
  
   of the same name
• the Blitz, a character in How I Met Your Mother
  How I Met Your Mother
  How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...
  
  , played by Jorge Garcia
  Jorge Garcia
  Jorge García is a U.S. actor and comedian. He first came to public attention with his performance as Hector Lopez on the television show Becker and later for his portrayal of Hugo "Hurley" Reyes in the television series Lost. Garcia also performs as a stand-up comedian.-Early life:García was born...
  
  
• Blitzy, fictional dog

Companies

• Blitz Games
  Blitz Games
  Blitz Games is a division of Blitz Games Studios and is responsible for producing its family titles, which are often licensed games based on well known IP. It is located in Warwickshire, England...
  
  , British computer games company
• Blitz Research
  Blitz Research
  Blitz Research Ltd is an Auckland, New Zealand based company which currently produces 3 BASIC based programming languages. Founded in 2000 by Mark Sibly, the company's first product was the now obsolete Blitz Basic 2D, a PC version of the Amiga Blitz Basic. It was released the same year as the...
  
  , New Zealand software company

Other

• All-Star Blitz, 1985, television game-show
• Alpen Blitz
  Alpen Blitz
  Alpen Blitz was a compact steel roller coaster that operated at Six Flags Great Adventure from 1976 to 1978. It was designed by Anton Schwarzkopf....
  
  , roller-coaster
• Blitz (film)
  Blitz (film)
  Blitz is a 2011 crime film directed by Elliott Lester and starring Jason Statham, Paddy Considine, Aidan Gillen and David Morrissey. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ken Bruen, which features his recurring characters Detective Sergeant Tom Brant and Chief Inspector James...
  
  , a 2011 film
• Blitz, a 1980s night club in London, see Blitz Kids
  Blitz Kids
  The Blitz Kids were a group of young people who frequented the Blitz nightclub in Covent Garden, London in the very early 1980s, and are credited with launching the New Romantic cultural movement...
  
  
• Blitz (movement)
  Blitz (movement)
  Blitz is an anarchist, communist and socialist youth community in Oslo, Norway, founded in 1982. The group has often been criticized for their use of violent methods of political protest.- The house :...
  
  , a radical youth movement in Norway
• Blitz Wolf
  Blitz Wolf
  Blitz Wolf is an early anti-German World War II Hitler-parodying cartoon produced in 1942 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons.-Plot:...
  
  , 1942, anti-German animation
• Domestic Blitz
  Domestic Blitz
  Domestic Blitz is an Australian lifestyle and DIY television series that debuted on the Nine Network on 18 May 2008, in the same former Sunday night 6:30 – 7:30pm time slot occupied by Backyard Blitz, which the show's format is based on. It is hosted by Shelley Craft and Scott Cam...
  
  , Australian television programme
• Sportz Blitz
  Sportz Blitz
  Sportz Blitz is a weekly live interactive sports talk television show broadcast across central Alabama. The show originates in Alexander City, Alabama from the studios of WAXC-LP and is simulcast on WKGA 97.5 FM radio in east central Alabama...
  
  , television sports programme
• Weekly Blitz
  Weekly Blitz
  Weekly Blitz is a tabloid newspaper published in Bangladesh every Wednesday by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. Online edition of this newspaper is available on www.weeklyblitz.net...
  
  , a weekly Bangladeshi newspaper
• Opel Blitz
  Opel Blitz
  Opel Blitz was the name given to various German light and middle-weight trucks built by Opel between 1930 and 1975.During the years preceding the Second World War Opel was Germany's largest truck producer...
  
  , a German lorry built by Opel