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Seems weird that you'd sync before terminating and killing processes. I prefer "Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring". Although some distros only enable the S, U, B/O anyway.
Couldn't say - I've never had the chance to use it. In fact, I'm not sure I ever had the SysRq key on a keyboard I've used.
I have had a Pause/Break key and used to think they were the same thing, but now I'm not so sure.
Its the same as the Print Screen key.