Hal Dullard is a character in one of Monk’s short stories. He’s a white man and all-around upstanding citizen from Indiana who is also (as his name suggests) remarkably stupid. In the story, Hal and a Black man named Tom are contestants on a trivia game show, which is patently rigged. While the host, Jack Spades, asks Hal ridiculously simple questions, he poses complex, specific questions to Tom. Despite this disparity, Hal fails miserably, while Tom answers each question correctly and in great detail, enraging Spades.