Last week I had the chance to speak with Brad Rutter, who has won more than $3.25 million on TV quiz shows, including four appearances on Jeopardy. Rutter was in Los Angeles promoting his appearance on the upcoming GSN show Grand Slam.B&C: Grand Slam, I understand that the format on this show is a little different than most other quiz shows, could you explain? Brad Rutter: Right, well the creator in England, who was actually at the taping, said that he got the idea from a chess clock, when you are playing in a chess tournament you only have so much time to make you move and then you smack the chess clock, and the other guys time starts counting down. So it is sort of based on that concept although there’s no button that you push or anything, but your time runs down until you answer a question correctly, and then the other person’s time starts running and vice versa. There’s four rounds, and at the end of the first three rounds, whoever has time left over has that added to their time in the fourth round, and whoever wins that round, wins the game.
