What's the next in the series?

H, Be, F, S, Mn, Kr, In, Gd, Tl, ?

There is something which you can be arrested for attempting but not for successfully completing.

In a town, there are four houses located at different distances from each other. Following are the distances:

The third house is 60 meters apart from the first house.
The fourth house is 40 meters apart from the second house.
The third house is 10 meters nearer to the fourth house than it is to the second house.

Can you find out the distance between the fourth and the first house?

Sweet & very intelligent katty has 8 puppets(Jane Bird Barbie Angel Colleen Nora Lass Missy).
All puppets are of different size. She arrange all puppets to face towards the guest and tell the guess the following clues :

* Jane has three puppets bigger on its left side
* Bird has two puppets smaller on its left side
* Barbie has one puppet bigger on its right side
* Angel has two puppets smaller on its right side
* Colleen has one puppet bigger on its left side
* Nora has one puppet smaller on its left side
* Lass has four puppets bigger on its right side
* Missy has three puppets smaller on its right side

Also some puppets are inside the bigger puppets.

Assuming you are the guest , can you tell the katty how the puppets are arranged ?

The answer I give is yes, but what I mean is no. What was the question?

Can you find a pattern and the missing number in the series given below?

100, 155, 258,? , 584, 819.

What is the next number in this matchsticks series riddle?

John went to a parrot shop in Mexico, and the parrot owner told him that his parrot is so unique that he repeats everything he hears. John got excited and immediately bought the parrot. John went home and spoke many words, but the parrot does not repeat anything.
He went again to the parrot shop and complaint to the shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper never lied. Explain?

A newspaper is supposed to have 60 pages, but pages 24 and 41 are missing.
Which other pages won't be there?

My thunder comes before the lightning; my lightning comes before clouds; my rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?