


Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time match 1, game 2. Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time match 2, game 1. Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time match 2, game 2. Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time match 3, game 1. Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time match 3, game 2. Holzhauer and the long-running quiz show’s two other biggest winners, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, face off in a prime-time Greatest of All Time tournament on ABC (starting Tuesday, 8 EST/PST. Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time match 4, game 1. Brad Rutter is the highest earning contestant on 'Jeopardy' ever : hes made around 4,385,702 over 14 years. KEN JENNINGS Ken Jennings became a household name during his record 74-game winning streak, the longest in Jeopardy history. Rutter retired as an undefeated five-day champion, with 55,102 in winnings. Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time match 4, game 2. Rutter first appeared on Jeopardy on October 30, 2000, when the rules stipulated that a contestant who won five consecutive days retired undefeated 4 and was guaranteed a spot in the Tournament of Champions. Brad Rutterīrad would later appear on Jeopardy! as Brad Rutter in the following 8 archived games: Dan Pawsonīattle of the Decades quarterfinal game 3. The players unanimously opted to end the game at the $600,000 level rather than proceed to the million dollar question and risk losing all their winnings.īrad appeared as a chaser on The Chase in 2021.īrad appeared in the following 5 archived games:Ģ019 All-Star Games match 1, continuation of game 1.Ģ019 All-Star Games match 1, game 1, Jeopardy! Round only.īrad previously appeared on Jeopardy! as Brad Rutter in the following 5 archived games:īrad Rutter vs. The players met each other at O'Brien's Irish Pub Quiz in Santa Monica, California.
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He made it to the quarterfinal round, in which he was eliminated from the tournament in his loss to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire $500,000 winner Ogi Ogas.īrad shared a $600,000 prize with Ethan Brosowsky and his "pub quiz" team comprising Ethan, Brad, Alan Bailey, Jonathan Dinerstein, Adam Stein, and Rebecca Ward on Million Dollar Mind Game aired. (Eric McCandless/ABC via AP) When ABC sent out a news release hyping the Jeopardy The Greatest of All Time prime-time special last week, the network included an intriguing fact: Brad. The Jeopardy The Greatest of All Time was a January 2020 primetime special, featuring the top three winnings Jeopardy contestants, Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and James Holzhauer, competing in the first-to-3-wins series with a top prize of 1 million to determine the greatest Jeopardy contestant 'of all time. He is the second highest-earning game-show contestant in the US with a total of over 5 million earned. He began as the top seed in the tournament because of his holding the all-time game show winnings record. Brad Rutter is an American game-show host, contestant, producer, and actor born in 1978. īrad also appeared on Grand Slam in 2007. SUBSCRIBE NOW FROM JUST 1 > Much has been written about Rutter and his Jeopardy experience, but here are five lesser-known facts about. Highest all-time winnings (over $4.3 million)Ģ020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000.Ģ019 All-Star Games captain of winning Team Brad: a share of $1,000,000 split three ways with Larissa Kelly and David Madden.Ģ014 Battle of the Decades winner: $1,000,000.Ģ011 IBM Challenge 2nd runner-up: $100,000 + $100,000 to the Lancaster County Community Foundation.Ģ005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into Round 2) member, Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member, Sweet Six (Round 3 winners) member, and winner: $2,115,000.Ģ002 Million Dollar Masters tournament winner: $1,000,000.Ģ001 Tournament of Champions winner: $100,000.īrad is the former host of InQuizitive with Brad Rutter. His total official Jeopardy winnings are 4,688,436.(Alex: The greatest-of-all-time Jeopardy! champion! Thank you so much, so long everybody.An actor and producer from Los Angeles, California. He took the record back from Brad Rutter as the highest-earning contestant (a record Rutter had held since 2014) by virtue of his victory on January 14, 2020, in the Jeopardy The Greatest of All Time tournament. (Alex: It has taken fifteen years for Ken Jennings to finally answer the question: "Is he as good as he appeared to be in that great run on Jeopardy!?" Brad, James, come on over here, please.) (Alex: He did not, and it doesn't matter your wager -44,000. as we come to James Holzhauer, who could win the match. (Brad: It's true, and I should get credit for it!) Rutter won the March 7, 2014, game against Mike Dupee and Jill Bunzendahl Chimka. He appeared in the 1990s week of the tournament. He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy Rutter participated in the Jeopardy 2014 Battle of the Decades, pitting top champions from throughout the previous 30 years of Jeopardy.
