Everyone’s favorite Jeopardy champ (everyone other than Alex Trebek, that is), Ken Jennings, has been tapped by Microsoft to be a spokesman for Encarta.

Jennings will embark on a nationwide media tour called “Quiz the Whiz” that challenges news desks to stump the human encyclopedia with questions from Microsoft’s Encarta Reference Library Premium 2005.

Jennings also gives a warning about researching on the Internet:

“The Internet can be an incredible resource, but the scary thing is you never know what’s out there or whether the answer you will find will be accurate. In fact, out of curiosity I searched for myself once and turned up all sorts of erroneous information,” he said. “One seemingly reputable and authoritative page even had my name wrong!”