Q 01/05

Otto von Bismarck's firm rule and Realpolitik earned him what nickname?

A) The Grey Fox

B) The Steel Junker

C) The Iron Chancellor

D) The Prussian Eagle

Answer · why

C) The Iron Chancellor

He served as the German Empire's first chancellor from 1871 to 1890.

Q 02/05

Under Bismarck, Prussia provoked three short wars against which three countries?

A) Denmark, Austria and France

B) Russia, Austria and France

C) Denmark, Sweden and France

D) Austria, Italy and Russia

Answer · why

A) Denmark, Austria and France

Denmark fell in 1864, Austria in 1866 and France in 1870–71, each war clearing a path to unification.

Q 03/05

In which year did Bismarck become Minister President and Foreign Minister of Prussia?

A) 1878

B) 1871

C) 1866

D) 1862

Answer · why

D) 1862

King Wilhelm recalled him on the advice of War Minister Roon after the Landtag rejected the army budget.

Q 04/05

Bismarck said in 1862 the great questions of the day would be decided not by speeches and votes but by what?

A) Steel and gold

B) Fire and sword

C) Iron and blood

D) Coal and iron

Answer · why

C) Iron and blood

He called speeches and majorities 'the great mistake of 1848 and 1849'.

Q 05/05

Where was Bismarck born in 1815?

A) Friedrichsruh

B) Königsberg

C) Potsdam

D) Schönhausen

Answer · why

D) Schönhausen

It was a family estate west of Berlin; the next year the family moved to Kniephof in Pomerania, where he grew up.