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Which of the following is NOT a proposed mechanism to achieve accelerated expansion:

• 1. Antibrane uplift

• 1. Casimir energies

• Q-fold singularities

• 1. Thanksgiving, Christmas or other Holiday dinners

For a quantum gravity vacuum in AdS, what is the dual CFT interpretation of going to an infinite distance limit in the AdS moduli space?

• Reducing the CFT on a smaller and smaller circle

• Coupling the CFT to gravity

• Approaching an infinite distance limit in the CFT's moduli space

• Approaching an infinite distance limit in the CFT's conformal manifold

Which of the following animals is also a mechanism to screen fifth forces:

• Cat

• Butterfly

• Chameleon

• Penguin

All known moduli spaces of vacua appearing in string theory have:

• Finite volume

• The moduli space volume does not grow faster than in flat space

• Infinite volume

• There are not exact moduli spaces

There have been several papers this year extending the Distance Conjecture beyond moduli spaces. Which of the following is not an examples of pseudo-moduli space where we can compute Distances now:

• 1. Flux vacua with different values of N

• Compactification manifolds with different topologies

• 1. When your friend suggests you join for a day in the mountains and says “it’ll be an easy hike, promise”

• 1. String compactifications with arbitrary scalar potential below QG cutoff

The IIA mass can be thought of as the gauge fieldstrength for a p-form gauge symmetry for p=?

• -2

• -1

• 0

• Pi^2/6

Which of the following celebrities caused a major stringy event to be moved last year?

• 1. Mr. Beast

• Taylor Swift

• 1. Washington Taylor

• 1. Moo Deng

In which situation is the Emergent String Conjecture not true?

• In Einstein AdS compactifications

• In F-theory at small volumes

• In the holographic dual of N=2 super-QCD

• • In non-supersymmetric tachyon-free strings

In which number of dimensions do we know non-SUSY perturbative string vacua with just one (neutral) modulus?

• 10

• 8

• 6

• 4

Using S-matrix bootstrap, it has been argued that an EFT weakly coupled to gravity must drastically break down at a QG cut-off (or species scale) which is:

• • Necessarily below the Planck scale

• • The Planck scale

• • The smaller of Planck scale or the mass scale of the first higher spin state

• • The mass of the smallest black hole that can be trusted in the EFT