Think Fast... The Microsoft® Encarta® Challenge 2001 is a single-elimination research skills tournament. Competing students between the ages of 13 and 18 will race against each other and the clock to research and answer questions on history, geography, science and the arts using Encarta.com. Participating teens will click among Encarta.com's many resources to answer questions and advance to the next round. Players who correctly answer six rounds of questions will qualify for the playoffs.

Get Prizes... Five finalists from the playoffs will be flown to New York City for a face-to-face finals round to determine the winner of $50,000 cash for college, a brand new Ford Focus ZX3, a Gateway computer and more. Four runners-up will each receive $5,000 cash. In addition to other prizes, 30 runners-up will receive $100 cash, and as a reward for making the playoffs, 15 semifinalists will receive $500 cash. Other prizes include Motorola T900 two-way pagers (including three months of service, courtesy of WebLink Wireless), Samsung Yepp digital music players (the world's smallest digital music player), and a Microsoft Digital Dream Package of Microsoft hardware and software with an estimated retail value of $200.

Come See It Live ... Finals will be played at the "Good Morning America" studios in New York City on Nov. 13, 2001. They will be hosted by Ben Stein and will feature a special performance from the hot new group LMNT.