Random facts about English alphabet

You probably might be thinking, I learned the English alphabet when I was five years old, or more likely even smaller. Well, you are reading this post because you can read English letters. Now try to answer these questions honestly without reading the suggested solutions.

1. How many characters are there in the English alphabet? (Kids' stuff)
2. When did the English alphabet first appear?
3. Find a six-letter word that starts with Q and ends in Z ?
4. Find a six-letter word that starts with Z and ends in C ?
5. Find a word that uses all five vowels in it (which should be valid in both American English and British English)?
6. Name a popular board game that is primarily based on the English alphabet.
7. Can you make up a sentence less than 35 letters that uses all letters in English alphabet?

Here are my answers for the questions above. If you have come up with something different that seems to be correct, let us know them from a comment.

1. There are 26 letters in the English alphabet.
2. The English language and the alphabet were first used by the Germanic settlers from Norway and Denmark between 8th and 9th centuries in Britain.
3. QUARTZ: A hard and colorless/white crystalline solid found in sedimentary rocks.
4. ZODIAC: A belt of the heavens within about 8° either side of the ecliptic, including all apparent positions of the sun, moon, and most familiar planets.
5. EQUATION: A statement that the value of two mathematical expressions are equal one another.
6. Scrabble, Lexicon, Words with Friends, Wordament and many more.
7. I've got three sentences. You may perform a search for 'pangrams' for more of these.
• A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 
• Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
• Blowzy red vixens fight for a quick jump.