> 2. I cannot get any results from Query Service, even for simple queries.
You have not specified your prefixes. wd: is Wikidata; that default is maintained even though autosuggest suggests that it will use local data items. Which was another bug reported on WBStack: https://github.com/wbstack/queryservice-ui/issues/4
But personally I would suggest using your own custom prefixes to make crystal clear that you are not using Wikidata, e.g.
https://furry.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Project:SPARQL/examples#Conventions