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System level concept is gone.

Note: in the past, you had to do more that just make a question bank at the System level. You also had to define a Question share role (or something like that), and assign every teacher in the system.

Is making a course, and enrolling every teacher in the system there any worse than that?

And, since this is Moodle roles, other solutions are possible. E.g. you could go into the question bank that you want to share with everyone, go to "More -> Permission" there, and override the permissions on the "Authenticated user" role to give everyone moodle/question:useall capability, or something like that.

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Don't know. The decision to change was made in https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-83470. You can read the discussion there.

Upgrading to latest supproted MySQL does not seem like a silly thing to do.

Alternatively, you could try hacking admin/environment.xml file to say that older MySQL is allowed. And, a reasonable way to test that would be to run all the PHPunit tests, if you know how to do that.
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When you backup and restore a course, that makes a copy of all the things in the course.

Each question bank is a thing in a course.

So, if you copy a course, you get a copy of the question bank(s). I don't really see any other way it could or should work.
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