Brad Rutter remembers Alex Trebek opening ‘Jeopardy!’ without pants
Trebek’s final episode of “Jeopardy!” is set to air Friday, Brad Rutter — one of the highest-earning contestants on the trivia series — fondly recalls a time when the veteran trivia emcee hilariously opened the show in his undies. Rutter, who racked up a cool $4.6 million as recurring “Jeopardy!” contestant, remembered the seemingly straight-laced Trebek flexing his funny bones during the show’s 2005 “Ultimate Tournament of Champions.”“We were so nervous, we were just all pale as a ghost,” Rutter told Philadelphia radio station WOGL of the stress he and opponents Ken Jennings and Jerome Vered all shared ahead of their mental joust. To ease the tension, Rutter, Jennings and Vered joked about playing against one another sans pants, noting