Bradford Gates Rutter (born January 31, 1978) is an American game show contestant, TV host, producer, and actor.
He is the highest-earning American game show contestant of all time and the highest-earning contestant (primarily from special tournament events) on the U.S.
syndicated game show Jeopardy!.
In 21 regular season and tournament games, Rutter has never lost a Jeopardy! match against a human opponent (though he twice trailed at the end of the first game of a two-day tournament match before coming back to win).
In 2011, both Rutter and Ken Jennings (another holder, at various times, of the all-time money record for Jeopardy! and for game shows) were routed in a two-day exhibition match against an IBM computer platform developed specifically to compete on Jeopardy!: Watson.
Rutter finished third in the match---both his first defeat overall and the first time he finished behind a human opponent.
Because the man versus machine match was declared an exhibition, none of the records from it count toward official show records.
He returned to the show for its 2019 All-Star tournament, which his team won.