Continental team championships

(created on 30th April 2008)
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1. Which of the following teams has never competed in the Pan-American Team Chess Championship?
2.
Which English player defeated Karpov with Black after 1.e4 a6!? at the 1980 European Team Championship?
3.
Legendary Filipino GM Eugenio Torre lost only one of his 43 Asian Team Championship games (1977–1993). Who handed him that loss?
4.
The 1957-1983 European championship final were preceded by preliminary groups. Which is the only team ever to win all of its preliminary group matches and fail to qualify having inferior game point record?
5.
One Asian Team Championship was among the tightest ever at this level: the top six teams finished within one point. Which edition was it?
6.
Which country finished a surprise fourth at the 1973 European Team Chess Championship in Bath?
7.
Which African team finished last at the 2003 women’s continental team event, was nevertheless invited to the Women’s World Team Championship, and then scored 0/36?
8.
How many games did Tigran Petrosian lose across all eight of his European Team Championship appearances (1957–1983)?
9. Which European country participated in all seven out of eight European Team Championship preliminary stages (1957–1983) and never qualified for the Finals?
10.
A move from one game at Haifa 1989 was named one of the “110 most fantastic moves ever played”. Who was X in “Greenfeld–X”?
11.
Argentina won the inaugural Pan-American Team Chess Championship in 1971 with a dazzling 25.5/28. Which two players scored a perfect 100%?
12.
Which of the following teams has never won the Asian Team Chess Championship, despite finishing on the podium as many as seven times?
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