Lab Rats
Rats in Pop Culture
Cheesy Rats
Famous Fictional Rats
Rats Sayings & Slang
100

This common lab rat species is also known as the Norway rat.

What is the brown rat?

100

This Pixar movie features a rat who dreams of becoming a chef.

What is Ratatouille?

100

This cheese is famous for its holes — perfect for rats to run through.

What is Swiss?

100

This clever rat is the main character in the movie Ratatouille.

Who is Remy?

100

This phrase means you’re telling on someone — like a rat would.

What is “ratting someone out”?

200

Rats are often used in labs because they share this percentage of genes with humans.

What is 90%?

200

This children’s book series features a mouse (often grouped with rats) who rides a motorcycle.

Who is Ralph S. Mouse?

200

Rats love this sharp, orange American classic that’s often shredded on tacos.

What is Cheddar?

200

This giant rat is the villain in the 1971 movie Willard.

Who is Ben?

200

When something smells suspicious, people say it “smells like a…”

What is rat?

300

Rats have this special ability that makes them excellent at detecting landmines and diseases.

What is their sense of smell?

300

This animated movie has a street rat named Rizzo who hangs out with the Muppets.

Who is Rizzo the Rat?

300

This stretchy Italian cheese is what rats pull apart when they find leftover pizza.

What is Mozzarella?

300

This brave rat leads the pack in the animated film Flushed Away.

Who is Roddy St. James?

300

This idiom means you’re in a hopeless situation, like rats on a sinking ship.

What is “rats deserting a sinking ship”?

400

This famous psychological experiment used rats in mazes to study learning and rewards.

What is the Skinner Box?

400

This British animated film features a posh rat named Roddy flushed down a toilet.

What is Flushed Away?

400

Hard, aged, and grated on top of pasta — rats call this “the fancy one.”

What is Parmesan?

400

This rat from Charlotte’s Web is known for being grumpy, selfish, and always hungry.

Who is Templeton?

400

A person who switches sides for personal gain is called this.

What is a rat / turncoat?

500

This 20th-century scientist famously studied rats running through mazes to understand behavior.

Who is B.F. Skinner?

500

In this horror movie, thousands of rats terrorize a town.

What is Willard?

500

This French soft cheese with a white rind is a fancy midnight snack for sophisticated rats.

What is Brie?

500

This literary rat lives in the walls of a prison and befriends a prisoner in a classic children’s book.

Who is the rat from The Tale of Despereaux?

500

This phrase means you’re living luxuriously, like a rodent in a fancy food store.

What is “living like a rat in a cheese factory”?

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