Surprise

Surprise (or, rarely, surprize) may refer to:

• Surprise (emotion), a brief emotional state experienced as the result of an unexpected significant event

Places

• Surprise, Arizona
• Surprise, Indiana
• Surprise, Nebraska
• Surprise, New York
• Surprise Station, California, formerly known as Surprise, California
• Surprise Valley (disambiguation)

Arts and entertainment

• The Surprise (Watteau), a c. 1718 painting by Antoine Watteau

Film and television

• Surprise (1991 film), a short by Pixar
• Surprise! (film), a 1995 short by Veit Helmer
• Surprise (2015 film), a Chinese film directed by Show Joy
• The Surprise (film), a Dutch film directed by Mike van Diem
• "Surprise" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a television episode
• "Surprise!" (Dexter's Laboratory), a television episode
• "Surprise" (The 7D), a television episode
• "Surprise!", an episode of Dora the Explorer
• "Surprise!", an episode of Arthur
• ¡Sorpresa!, a TV network whose name means "Surprise!" in Spanish

Music

• 5urprise, a South Korean band
• Surprise Records, a record label
• Surprise Symphony, nickname of Symphony No. 94 (Haydn)

Albums

• Surprise (Crystal Waters album), 1991
• Surprise (Lynsey de Paul album), 1973
• Surprise (Paul Simon album), 2006
• Surprise (S.E.S. album), 2001
• Surprise (Sylvia album), 1984
• Surprises (Herbie Mann album), 1976
• Surprise, by Better Than Ezra, 1990
• Surprise!, by Fifteen, 1996

Songs

• "Surprise!" (Bonnie Pink song), 1996
• "Surprise", by HALO, 2015
• "Surprise", by James from the album Millionaires, 1999
• "Surprise", by Jolin Tsai from the album Lucky Number, 2001
• "Surprise", by Sugababes from the album Change, 2007
• "Surprise", by Gnarls Barkley from the album The Odd Couple, 2008
• "Surprises", by Billy Joel from the album Nylon Curtain, 1982

Boats

• Surprise 25, a French sailboat design

Ships

• HMS Surprise, the name of several British Royal Navy ships; also,
  • HMS Surprise (replica ship), a modern tall ship, built at Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • HMS Surprise (novel), a 1973 historical naval novel by Patrick O'Brian
• USS Surprise, the name of several United States Navy ships
  • Surprise (1777 ship), the first American naval ship of the name
• Surprize (1780 ship), a British East India Company merchant ship
• Surprise (1813 privateer), a schooner launched in the U.S. that captured more than 30 British vessels before wrecking in 1815
• Surprise (clipper), an 1850 clipper ship in the San Francisco and tea trades
• Surprise (paddle steamer), the first paddle steamer, and the first steam powered vessel, built and run in Australia
• Surprise (schooner), built in 1917-18 and still providing daily cruises for tourists on Penobscot Bay
• Royal Escape (1660 ship), the ex-collier Surprise.

Other uses

• Surprise (apple), a pink-fleshed apple
• Surprise Moriri (born 1980), South African footballer

See also

• Surprise factor, a storytelling technique
• Self-information, a concept in information theory
• Surprise, Surprise (disambiguation)
• Shock (disambiguation)