Euro 2016 players quiz: retired chickens, a wine merchant and a Big Ben tattoo

Iceland fans, whose merriment may have been enhanced by wine that was imported by one of their players. Photograph: Philippe Desmazes/Getty Images

1. Which player has tattoos of Big Ben, a phone box and the London Eye?

   1. Wayne Rooney

   2. Steven Davis

   3. Jack Wilshere

   4. Nathaniel Clyne

2. Which player had an airport named after him for a day before the tournament?

   1. Gylfi Sigurdsson

   2. Gareth Bale

   3. Kyle Lafferty

   4. Christian Fuchs

3. Which player graduated from high school "with full marks" and then enrolled at the Faculty of Business and Economics in Turin, where he completed a degree that helped him launch his own communications business?

   1. Paul Pogba

   2. Álvaro Morata

   3. Mario Mandzukic

   4. Giorgio Chiellini

4. Which player has taken acting lessons, produced films, starred as himself – even shooting a sex scene with his offscreen wife – and wants to move into movies and theatre when he retires from football?

   1. Marek Hamsik

   2. Johan Djourou

   3. Ashley 'Jazz' Richards

   4. David de Gea

5. Which player represented Russia at Euro 2016 having previously made two appearances for Germany?

   1. Fyodor Smolov

   2. Roman Neustädter

   3. Aleksandr Kokorin

   4. Artyom Dzyuba

6. Which player runs a rest home for 16 retired chickens?

   1. Joe Allen

   2. Joe Ledley

   3. Gianluigi Buffon

   4. Neil Taylor

7. Which player owns the Swiss football club NK Pajde (where his dad is the president and his brother is the manager)?

   1. Valon Behrami

   2. Taulant Xhaka

   3. Ivan Rakitic

   4. Xherdan Shaqiri

8. Which player developed a nose for wine while playing in Serie A and has set up a company that sells Italian wine in Iceland?

   1. Emil Hallfredsson

   2. Eidur Gudjohnsen

   3. Gylfi Sigurdsson

   4. Aron Gunnarsson

9. Which player surprised a waiter in a nightclub by swapping his £36,000 diamond-encrusted Hublot watch for the waiter's cheap Seiko after the waiter had complimented it?

   1. Vedran Corluka

   2. Kevin de Bruyne

   3. Raphaël Varane

   4. Cristiano Ronaldo

10. Which player has sold two of his paintings, entitled 'Tea Break' and 'End of Shift', for £450 apiece?

    1. Petr Cech

    2. Bastian Schweinsteiger

    3. Jan Vertonghen

    4. Owain Fôn Williams

Solutions

1:D - 'I’m proud of where I’m from' says Clyne. 'I grew up in Stockwell, which wasn’t bad.', 2:C - The George Best Belfast City airport was given to Lafferty for the day to celebrate the country’s first fixture at a major international tournament in 30 years. , 3:D - Speaking about his character, Chiellini says: 'On the pitch I have a strong temperament, but off the pitch I’m more serene, reflective. I manage to separate out those two things.', 4:B - His wife wore an Arsenal shirt during the steamy scene, 5:B - And his dad played three times for Kazakhstan, 6:A - 'We didn’t have any hens growing up but wanted to help chickens after they finished their commercial lives,' says Allen, who has named his two cockerels Bruce and Rodney, and his 14 hens Meg, Leg, Silkie Steve, Kate, Silkie Steve junior, Giblets, Snowy, Nugget, Kiev, Dora, Holly, Shimmer, Shine and Chickaletta., 7:C - Rakitic was born in Switzerland to Croatian parents., 8:A - Hallfredsson spent five years at Verona before moving to Udinese in January 2016. , 9:A - When the waiter said it was a nice looking watch, Corluka offered an exchange., 10:D - 'It’s important you’ve got a right balance in your life. When I go to my own little world and paint I tend to forget about things,' says Fon Williams.

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