mouse

     

30 species; see text

Trivia about mouse

  • Common name given Douglas Engelbart's device, an "X-Y position indicator for a display system"
  • One of these genetically engineered white laboratory animals became the first animal patented
  • House, harvest & grasshopper are types of this rodent
  • One of these creatures talks a lion out of eating him, later saves the lion from a trap
  • Both Shakespeare & Clement Clarke Moore wrote about this creature not "stirring"
  • In an Aesop fable, he talks a lion out of eating him & later repays the favor
  • The most common one found in the home is “mus musculus”, which may be where Walt got the initials
  • In 1982 scientists manipulated this rodent's sex cells to create a "mighty" version twice the normal size
  • Saki advised “In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for” this
  • In Robert Lawson's "Ben and Me", Ben is Benjamin Franklin & Me is Amos, one of these creatures who lives in Ben's cap
  • It "Roared" & "Saved The West" in novels about a tiny duchy called Grand Fenwick
  • Mus musculus
  • He talked the lion out of eating him & later returned the favor by gnawing on the ropes that bound the lion
  • In "Dumbo", Dumbo follows his friend Timothy, this type of animal, by holding his tiny tail in his trunk
  • In 1983 Apple introduced the Lisa personal computer, the first PC with one of these controls
  • This rodent is a famous eater of cheese
  • "If You Give a ____ a Cookie"
  • Algernon is one of these unfortunate creatures in "Flowers For Algernon"
  • Reepicheep, a talking, sword-wielding one of these little animals, appears in 3 Narnia tales
  • Peter sellers: "The _____ that Roared "
  • If you want to win on "Jeopardy!", don't be as quiet as a topo, one of these
  • Fievel
  • A swelling under the eye, or a quiet, timid person
  • Rodent name of the lethal but loyal friend to Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins
  • Murine
  • A mickey, used to measure movement of this computer part, equals 1/200th of an inch