Lab Rats
This common lab rat species is also known as the Norway rat.
What is the brown rat?
This Pixar movie features a rat who dreams of becoming a chef.
What is Ratatouille?
This cheese is famous for its holes — perfect for rats to run through.
What is Swiss?
This clever rat is the main character in the movie Ratatouille.
Who is Remy?
This phrase means you’re telling on someone — like a rat would.
What is “ratting someone out”?
Rats are often used in labs because they share this percentage of genes with humans.
What is 90%?
This children’s book series features a mouse (often grouped with rats) who rides a motorcycle.
Who is Ralph S. Mouse?
Rats love this sharp, orange American classic that’s often shredded on tacos.
What is Cheddar?
This giant rat is the villain in the 1971 movie Willard.
Who is Ben?
When something smells suspicious, people say it “smells like a…”
What is rat?
Rats have this special ability that makes them excellent at detecting landmines and diseases.
What is their sense of smell?
This animated movie has a street rat named Rizzo who hangs out with the Muppets.
Who is Rizzo the Rat?
This stretchy Italian cheese is what rats pull apart when they find leftover pizza.
What is Mozzarella?
This brave rat leads the pack in the animated film Flushed Away.
Who is Roddy St. James?
This idiom means you’re in a hopeless situation, like rats on a sinking ship.
What is “rats deserting a sinking ship”?
This famous psychological experiment used rats in mazes to study learning and rewards.
What is the Skinner Box?
This British animated film features a posh rat named Roddy flushed down a toilet.
What is Flushed Away?
Hard, aged, and grated on top of pasta — rats call this “the fancy one.”
What is Parmesan?
This rat from Charlotte’s Web is known for being grumpy, selfish, and always hungry.
Who is Templeton?
A person who switches sides for personal gain is called this.
What is a rat / turncoat?
This 20th-century scientist famously studied rats running through mazes to understand behavior.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
In this horror movie, thousands of rats terrorize a town.
What is Willard?
This French soft cheese with a white rind is a fancy midnight snack for sophisticated rats.
What is Brie?
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?
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”?