421. The oldest oil field in India is in-

1. Haldia
2. Bombay High
3. Neyveli
4. Digboi

Option “4” is correct.
Digboi has the distinction of being India’s oldest continuously producing oilfield. Digboi refinery, now a division of Indian Oil Corporation, had a capacity of about 0.65 MMTPA as of 2003. Digboi is now Headquarter of Assam Oil Division of Indian Oil Corporation Limited.
422. Which from the following is a landlocked sea?

1. Timor Sea
2. Arafura Sea
3. Greenland Sea
4. Aral Sea

Option “4” is correct.
Aral Sea is a landlocked sea lying between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in the middle of a semi-arid and desert region.
423. The world’s largest island is-

1. New Guinea
2. Madagascar
3. Greenland
4. Iceland

Option “3” is correct.
Greenland is the world’s largest island covering 2,175,597 square kilometers.
424. The largest freshwater lake by volume in the world is-

1. Lake Victoria
2. Lake Michigan
3. Lake Baikal
4. Lake Superior

Option “3” is correct.
Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in the world.
425. Which hill station’s name means ‘place of the thunderbolt’?

1. Gangtok
2. Shillong
3. Aizawl
4. Darjeeling

Option “4” is correct.
The name Darjeeling comes from the Tibetan words, Dorje (thunderbolt) and Ling (place or land), meaning the land of the thunderbolt.
426. Which planet takes the longest time to go around the sun?

1. Earth
2. Jupiter
3. Uranus
4. Neptune

Option “4” is correct.
Neptune takes the longest time to go around the sun. Neptune orbits the Sun at an average distance of 4.5 billion km. Like all the planets in the Solar System, Neptune follows an elliptical path around the Sun, varying its distance to the Sun at different points along its orbit.
427. The longest river of peninsular India is-

1. Krishna
2. Kaveri
3. Narmada
4. Godavari

Option “4” is correct.
Godavari, also known as ‘Dakshin Ganga’ – the South Ganges, the second longest river of India after the Ganges, is the longest river of peninsular India.
428. In ‘annular’ pattern, rivers flow-

1. From West to East
2. From North to South
3. Like a ring
4. In transverse direction

Option “3” is correct.
In an annular drainage pattern streams follow a roughly circular or concentric path along a belt of weak rock, resembling in plan a ring like pattern.
429. Which of the following is called “brown paper”?

1. Jute
2. Cotton
3. Rubber
4. Tea

Option “1” is correct.
Jute is a long, soft, shiny vegetable fiber that can be spun into coarse, strong threads. Jute is in great demand due to its cheapness, softness, length, lustre and uniformity of its fiber. It is called the ‘brown paper bag’ as it is also used to store rice, wheat, grains, etc. It is also called the ‘golden fiber’ due to its versatile nature.
430. Project tiger programme was launched in:

1. 1975
2. 1973
3. 1994
4. 1971

Option “2” is correct.
Project Tiger is a tiger conservation programme launched in 1973 by the Government of India during Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s tenure.

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