Rags to Riches

Q:

Take the phrase "ten upon these beams".  Rearrange the letters to name two things that are at opposite ends of the spectrum.

A:


Pretty straight forward puzzle.  As you move from rags to riches, you are able to move out of your parents BASEMENT and into a PENTHOUSE.

Shop, Drop and Roll

Q:

Rearrange the same four letters to complete these two statements:

People leave __ __ __ __ 's carrying more than when they came in.

People leave the __ __ __ __ carrying less than when they came in.

BONUS:  What is the connection to the image?

A:

I'll give the solutions in reverse order.  The gentlemen in the image are:

1)   Frank Lloyd Wright  -  famous architect in the field of CONSTRUCTION

2)   Sting  -  pop star and former front man for the POLICE

3)   Tris Speaker  -  hall-of-famer with the Cleveland INDIANs

4)   Troy Aikman  -  hall-of-famer with the Dallas COWBOYs

5)   George C. Scott  -  actor noted for his portrayal of Patton, a famous G.I.

6)   Evel Knievil  -  famous daredevil and BIKER

And those, my friends, are the Village People.  Their most famous hit was YMCA, where you leave carrying less.  Rearrange to get MACY's, where you leave carrying more.  

Ten is Ne one?

Q:  

Of the postal abbreviations for the fifty US states, fifteen are also symbols for chemical elements on the periodic table, as in NE for Nebraska and Ne for Neon.  If you assign a number to each letter of the alphabet, A=1, B=2, etc.,  there is a numerical property unique to one of these chemical elements.  What is it?

A:

There are multiple answers to the puzzle if you look only an the set of numbers.  However, looking at the relationship between the numbers and their respective chemical elements narrows the field substantially.

Aluminum (Al) is the only element that has this property:

Assign the numerical values and A(1) + L(12) = 13, which is the atomic number of aluminum.