I kind of stumbled into this one ... and I'm not certain I understand the full problem, but .... have you checked what category the quiz questions are listed under? If they are under a specific quiz activity instead of a course category you wouldn't be able to create more quizzes from them. I had the same problem and just had to move the questions to the correct category and then I was fine.
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