Pick The Player Trivia Quiz

Answer: Fullback

Serge Blanco played 93 tests for France from 1980 to 1991, of which 81 of these tests were at fullback. He scored 38 tries for France in his career and won a grand slam in the then named Five Nations championship in 1981 and 1987. He was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame in 1997 and the IRB Hall of Fame in 2011.

Answer: Hooker

Phil Kearns was capped 67 times by his country and captained the side ten times. He scored eight tries for the Wallabies and was involved in 50 victories out of the 67 test matches he played. He is one of a small hand full of players to have won the Ruby World Cup twice in his career, in 1991 and 1999.

Answer: Number 8

Brooke played 58 times for New Zealand and scored 89 points, nine of those points were from drop kicks, which included a 48-metre monster drop kick during the 1995 World Cup semi final match against England.

Answer: Centre

Brian O'Driscoll played 133 test matches for Ireland and captained them in 83 of those matches. He played eight tests for the British and Irish Lions (2001, 2005, 2009, 2013). He scored 46 tries in his career for the Irish and one for the Lions.

Answer: Fly-half

Hugo Porta played for Argentina 58 times and scored 590 points. He captained the side 34 times. Porta has been inducted into both the International Rugby Hall of Fame and IRB Hall of Fame. Apart from captaining the "Los Pumas", he also captained the South American Jaguar team in three tours to South Africa during isolation between the years of 1980-1984.

Answer: Prop

Os du Randt played 80 tests for South Africa at loose head prop. He was a member of the Springbok World Cup winning squads of 1995 and 2007; the only member of the both squads to do so. His nickname Os means "Ox" in English.

Answer: Scrum-half

Sir Gareth Edwards played 53 test matches for Wales of which he captained thirteen and earned ten caps for the British Lions. During his Welsh career, Wales won the then Five Nations Championship seven times.

Answer: Flank

Calder played 34 tests for Scotland in between the years of 1986-1991 as well as three tests for the British Lions in 1989. Calder's twin brother Jim played for the Scottish and British Lions sides too, but the twins did not play on the same team together.

Answer: Wing

Rory Underwood played 85 test matches for England and scored 210 points through 49 tries. He also scored one try in six test matches for the British and Irish Lions between 1989-1993. Underwood was a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force until 1999.

Answer: Lock

Marco Bortolami played an amazing 111 test matches for Italy. He made his debut for Italy against Namibia in 2001 and was made captain of the Azzurri in 2003 at the age of 22. At that point he was Italy's youngest ever captain. He scored seven tries in his career and retired in 2015.