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1. Mahout is based on actor Sabu, who rode elephants in movies in the 1940s. Nell Bortells did the research on this actor and designed the rider in the proper elephant-riding position.

2. Winston Churchill.

3. Mold shop employee named Benny Basset.

4. Shipyard welder.

5. Designed model cars for Mattel, and created life-like crash dummies for car crash research.

6. Germany, where she first studied art, and later fled to escape the Nazis during World War II.

7. False. She was a bit offended by this name, because they were her little friends and she didn't see them as horrible.

8. Maxine Renaker asked Pat to write out her full name, and judged her artistic ability based on her signature.

9. Helen Farnlund, who plays drums and marimba. She met her husband Emil Farnlund, who was her marimba teacher, through music. An interesting side note, in the original "Fantasia" film, Emil Farnlund appears in silhouette in the scene with the conductor standing next to his marimba.