When I go into the question bank for my Global Studies course, I am also seeing questions from my U.S. Studies course (and vis-a-versa). That is one of the issues. (The backup/restore/sharing cart issue regarding quizzes may/may not be related. I deleted all unused questions and the issue remains and might pertain to a corrupted question somewhere.)
With regards to role settings, I don't know, as I am not an network administrator and I don't have access to those settings.