Challenger Explained

Challenger, Challengers, The Challenger, or, The Challengers, may refer to:

Entertainment

Comics and manga

• Challenger (character), comic book character
• Challengers (manga), manga by Hinako Takanaga

Film and telemovies

• Challengers (film), a 2024 romantic sports film directed by Luca Guadagnino
• Challenger (1990 film), a television movie about the space shuttle Challenger disaster
• The Challengers (film), a 1990 family film produced for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• The Challenger, the original British title for the film The Challenger Disaster, a 2013 BBC made-for-TV film
• The Challenger (2015 film), an American sports drama film

TV shows

• The Challengers (TV series), a 1979–80 Canadian biographical television series
• The Challengers (game show), a 1990 American game show hosted by Dick Clark
• Challenger (1997 game show), a Australian game show
• Challenger (2013 game show), a Pakistani game show

Games

• Challenger (video game), a 1985 game developed by Hudson Soft
• Challengers (role-playing game), a 1985 role-playing game
• Challenger (arcade game), a 1981 game developed by Centuri

Literature

• Challenger (novel), a Star Trek: New Earth novel by Diane Carey
• Professor Challenger, a fictional scientist and adventurer created by Arthur Conan Doyle; and media franchise
• Challenger, a science fiction fanzine by Guy H. Lillian III which was nominated twelve times for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine

Music

• The Challengers (band), a 1960s surf rock group

Albums

• Challengers (album), a 2007 album by The New Pornographers
• Challenger (Burning Star Core album), a 2008 album
• Challenger (Knut album), a 2002 album
• Challenger (Memphis May Fire album), a 2012 album
• Challenger, 2013 album by Recover
• Challenger (EP), a 2021 EP by JO1

Songs

• "Challenger", a song by Misia from the 2004 album Mars & Roses
• "Challenger", a song by Burning Star Core from the 2008 album Challenger
• "Challengers", a song by The New Pornographers from the 2007 album Challengers

Companies

• Challenger Limited, an Egyptian-based provider of contract oil and gas land drilling and workover services
• Challenger Ltd, an ASX200 listed investment management company

People and animals

• Challenger (actor) (19592010), Bangladeshi film and television actor
• Romeo Challenger (born 1950), rock drummer, father of Ben Challenger
• Ben Challenger (born 1978), English high jumper
• Okeem Challenger (born 1989), Antiguan and Barbudan footballer
• Challenger (eagle) (born 1989), an American bald eagle known for free flights
• Challenger (horse) (1927–1948), a British Thoroughbred racehorse

Places

• Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the world's oceans
• Challenger Plateau, a submarine rise in the Tasman Sea close to the New Zealand coast
• Challenger Mountains, a subrange of the Arctic Cordillera in Nunavut, Canada
• Mount Challenger, a mountain on East Falkland, Falkland Islands
• Challenger Point, a mountain in Colorado, United States
• Challenger Harbour, a marina in Fremantle, Western Australia
• Challengers, Saint Kitts and Nevis, a settlement on the island of Saint Kitts
• Challenger Colles, a cluster of hills on Pluto
• Challenger mine, a gold mine in South Australia

Schools

• Challenger Secondary School, a public school in Spanaway, Washington, United States
• Challenger Early College High School, a public secondary school in Hickory, North Carolina, United States
• Challenger Institute of Technology, former name of South Metropolitan TAFE, a Technical and Further Education institution in Fremantle, Western Australia

Science

• Challenger Society for Marine Science, established in 1903 in the United Kingdom
• Challenger expedition, a British oceanographic survey in 1872–1876
• Challenger Center for Space Science Education, an American nonprofit educational organization

Sports

• Challengers League, former name of K3 League, an amateur football competition in South Korea
• Challengers Cup, a South Korean football competition
• ATP Challenger Tour, a series of men's professional tennis tournaments
• Challenger (America's Cup), the yacht representing the club that currently opposes the defender
• PCB Challengers, a Pakistani women's cricket team

Transportation

Air and space craft

• Bombardier Challenger, a series of business jets manufactured by Bombardier
• Space Shuttle Challenger, a NASA space shuttle
  • Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
• Quad City Challenger, an ultralight airplane
• Challenger, the Apollo 17 lunar module

Land vehicles

• Challenger trucks, a Canadian maker of heavy trucks
• There have been four tanks named Challenger in British military service.
  • Cruiser Mk VIII Challenger in service during World War II
  • Challenger 1 in service from the mid-1980s to early 21st century
  • Challenger 2 in service from 1998 onwards
  • Challenger 3 in development; predicted to enter service from 2027 onwards
• Dodge Challenger, a car made by Dodge
• Mitsubishi Pajero Sport, an SUV once sold in Japan as the Mitsubishi Challenger
• Tokai Challenger, a solar car
• Challenger (train), a named passenger train fleet
• Union Pacific Challenger, a type of steam locomotive
• Challenger Tractor, a rubber-tracked agricultural tractor

Sea vessels

• Columbia 24 Challenger, an American sailboat design
• HMS Challenger, any of eight Royal Navy ships
• RSS Challenger, a Sjöormen-class submarine in the Republic of Singapore Navy
• USS Challenger (ID-3630), an early-20th century US Navy cargo ship
• Challenger (clipper), a clipper sailing ship built in London in 1852
• Challenger (1853 clipper), a clipper ship built in Boston
• Challenger (Long Beach fireboat), operated by the fire department of Long Beach, California, US
• , a steamboat built in 1865 that operated in Puget Sound, Washington, US
• Stena Challenger, a ferry, formerly Isle of Inishfree and Pride of Cherbourg, now MV Kaitaki
• Glomar Challenger, a deep sea research and scientific drilling vessel for oceanography and marine geology studies
• Deepsea Challenger, used by James Cameron in the Mariana Trench
• SS St. Marys Challenger, a freight vessel operating on the North American Great Lakes built in 1906

Other uses

• Challenger hop, a beer flavouring
• Challenger (cable system), an international submarine communications cable between US and Bermuda
• Challenger, a line of microcomputer systems manufactured by Ohio Scientific

See also

• • • • • Challenge (disambiguation)
• The Challenge (disambiguation)
• Challenge Cup (disambiguation)