![]() ![]() ![]() He answered every question correctly and was one of only seven mob members to survive to the next show, as was Annie Duke. 100 (as a member of "the Mob") on December 1, 2006, and again on December 8, 2006. With this win, Rutter regained the record as the highest money-winner ever on American game shows, which Jennings had held since 2008. Rutter participated in the Jeopardy! 2014 Battle of the Decades, pitting top champions from throughout the previous 30 years of Jeopardy!, where he won the tournament and $1,000,000. Rutter kept $100,000 and donated the other $100,000 to the Lancaster County Community Foundation. Jennings and Rutter did likewise with half of their respective winnings of $300,000 and $200,000. IBM donated its $1 million purse to two charities. The computer program, equipped with a precisely timed mechanical "thumb", won handily, finishing with a $77,147 score, while Jennings took second place with a score of $24,000 over Rutter's $21,600 score. This was the first ever man-versus-machine competition in Jeopardy!'s history. While some analysts suggest that Rutter's money totals should include $15,000 for a first round 'win' in this tournament, the official website does not count this $15,000 when stating that Rutter's winnings were $3,255,102 after the completion of this tournament.įrom February 14–16, 2011, the Jeopardy! IBM Challenge featured IBM's Watson facing off against Rutter and Jennings in a two-game cumulative total match aired over three days. Those who won the first round earned $15,000, but Rutter was among nine top winners who received a first round bye. ![]() There is a minor discrepancy between sources as to Rutter's total Jeopardy! winnings stemming from the prize structure of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions. Jennings later regained his record by 2008 after appearing on various other game shows. After his 2005 tournament win, in which he defeated Jennings and Jerome Vered in the finals, Rutter surpassed Jennings as the highest money-winner ever on American game shows. Rutter returned for the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions, winning the tournament and $2,100,000. He was invited back for the 2002 Million Dollar Masters Tournament, where he won the $1,000,000 main prize and became the all-time money winner in Jeopardy! history. The rules would be changed in 2003, before Ken Jennings' run of 74 consecutive days in 2004, making Jennings the (then) all-time Jeopardy! money winner.Īs a 5-day champion, Rutter was invited to the 2001 Tournament of Champions, where he defeated other 5-day champions and won the $100,000 main prize. Rutter retired as an undefeated 5-day champion, with $55,102 in winnings (he was also awarded a choice of Chevrolet cars of which he picked 2 Chevrolet Camaros At the time, Jeopardy awarded new cars to 5-day undefeated champions). Rutter first appeared on Jeopardy! in October 2000, when the rules stipulated that a contestant who won five consecutive days retired undefeated and was guaranteed a spot in the Tournament of Champions. Before his success on Jeopardy!, he worked at the Lancaster Coconuts record store. Rutter has described himself as a "slacker" in school and a Johns Hopkins dropout (while there, he studied English). At the 2005 Manheim Township High School graduation ceremony, he announced the start of a scholarship fund in memory of his late high-school quiz bowl coach, Miss Ann Clouser. He is one of the 19 people to have been named to the National Academic Championship Hall of Fame in its 25-year history. Rutter is a 1995 graduate of Manheim Township High School in Neffsville, Pennsylvania, where he was on the Quiz Bowl team. He now lives in Los Angeles where he is pursuing acting. He has also been a reader and judge for the high school National Academic Championship. Between Tuesday’s two games (after the first game’s Final Jeopardy) the scores were reset to zero and James hit Brad Rutter…the HIGHEST EARNING CONTESTANT IN JEOPARDY! HISTORY…with an amazing burn.Until 2007, Rutter lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he hosted InQuizitive, a local broadcast quiz show for high school students. Sometimes that leaked into the show itself. ![]() Leading up to this tournament and throughout each night, ‘Jeopardy James’ Holzhauer was active on Twitter throwing jabs at his opponents. The first contestant to pick up 3 ‘wins’ would receive the grand prize of $1 million. Their totals from each game would be added up and whoever had the most money after 2 games would be the winner for that night. The format for this event was each night the three contestants would play to full games of Jeopardy! (60 minutes instead of 30). Brad Rutter has absolutely killed it in the various Tournament of Champions and has earned a total of $4,938,436 throughout the years while always getting in the way of Ken Jennings winning one of these tournaments. ![]()
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