Quicksilver

Introduction

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Quicksilver may refer to:

  • Quicksilver (metal), the chemical element mercury
Arts and entertainment

Music

  • Quicksilver, a bluegrass band fronted by Doyle Lawson
  • "Quicksilver" (song), a 1950 hit for Bing Crosby
  • Quicksilver (soundtrack), from the 1986 film
  • Quicksilver (album), an album by Quicksilver Messenger Service
  • Quicksilver (EP), a 2009 EP by The Crüxshadows
  • "Quicksilver Lightning", a song by Roger Daltrey
  • "Quicksilver" (instrumental), 1969 instrumental from Pink Floyd album Soundtrack from the Film More
  • Shortened name form of Quicksilver Messenger Service, used by the band on their later record covers
  • "Quicksilver Girl" (song), Steve Miller Band, 1968 album Sailor
  • Quicksilver, a classical music ensemble directed by Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski

Film and television

  • Quicksilver (Irish game show), an Irish quiz show
  • Quicksilver (film), a 1986 film

Fictional entities

  • Quicksilver (Marvel Comics), a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe
  • Quicksilver (DC Comics), or Max Mercury, a superhero in the DC Comics universe
  • Quicksilver, leader of the SilverHawks on the 1986 animated television series SilverHawks
  • Quicksilver, a fictional synthetic hormone in The Invisible Man
  • Quicksilver, a dragon in The World of Ice & Fire and Fire & Blood

Other arts

  • Quicksilver (Stephenson novel), first volume of The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
  • Quicksilver (Hart novel), romance novel by Callie Hart
Transportation
  • USS Quicksilver, a US Navy patrol vessel
  • Zimmer Quicksilver, a personal luxury car
Computing
  • QuickSilver (project), a software research project at Cornell University
  • Quicksilver (software), an open source application launcher for Mac OS X
  • QuickSilver, Broadvision desktop publishing software, formerly by Interleaf
Organizations
  • Quicksilver Aircraft, an American manufacturer of ultralight and light aircraft
  • Quicksilver (ISP), a New Zealand internet service provider

Entertainment

  • Quicksilver (company), UK's largest amusement arcade company
  • Quiksilver, a surf and sports related apparel brand
  • Quicksilver Software, a computer-games company
  • Las Vegas Quicksilvers, a former soccer team
People
  • DJ Quicksilver (born 1964), electronic musician
  • Quicksilver (wrestler), born Richard Clements, American professional wrestler
Other uses
  • Quicksilver, a locomotive of Great Western Railway 3031 Class
  • Quixilver, either of two robotics teams at Leland High School (San Jose, California)
See also
  • Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, a band
  • Operation Quicksilver (disambiguation)
  • Quicksilva, a video game publisher

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