diff --git a/scripts/Modules/Mars.pm b/scripts/Modules/Mars.pm
index 922a6c7..df0c1e9 100644
--- a/scripts/Modules/Mars.pm
+++ b/scripts/Modules/Mars.pm
@@ -178,6 +178,19 @@ sub db_selectrow {
     return @row;
 }
 
+sub db_variant_name {
+    my ($db_name) = @_;
+
+    my ($count) =
+      db_selectrow("SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT variant) FROM `$db_name`.variant");
+    return undef unless defined $count && $count == 1;
+
+    my ($variant) =
+      db_selectrow("SELECT DISTINCT variant FROM `$db_name`.variant");
+
+    return $variant;
+}
+
 sub db_create {
     my ($db_name) = @_;
     say " - Creating database $db_name...";
diff --git a/scripts/menu.pl b/scripts/menu.pl
index d219a98..eda3d0e 100644
--- a/scripts/menu.pl
+++ b/scripts/menu.pl
@@ -129,6 +129,19 @@ my %handlers = (
 
         # Run queries on databases
         foreach my $db (@selected_dbs) {
+            my $experiment = $db =~ s/smchurla_//r;
+
+            my $variant_name = Mars::db_variant_name($db);
+            if ( !defined $variant_name ) {
+                say "Skipping $db: contains multiple variants";
+                next;
+            }
+            if ( $variant_name ne $experiment ) {
+                say
+"Skipping $db: the variant is '$variant_name' but the queries use '$experiment'.";
+                next;
+            }
+
             foreach my $query (@selected_queries) {
                 Util::rewrite_file( $local_db_conf, "database=",
                     "database=$db\n" );
@@ -138,7 +151,7 @@ my %handlers = (
                   ? " (" . join( "+", @filter_configs ) . ")"
                   : "";
                 say "Running $query$config_label on $db...";
-                Util::execute_query( $db =~ s/smchurla_//r,
+                Util::execute_query( $experiment,
                     $query, $local_db_conf, $local_archive_dir, 0,
                     @filter_configs );
             }