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Tom Wahzetepe
Jack Spades is a character in one of Monk’s short stories. He hosts a trivia game show on which a white man (Hall Dullard) and Black man (Tom Wahzetepe) take turns answering trivia questions to determine the show’s new champion. However, the show is patently rigged. While Spades poses impossibly easy questions to Hall (who nevertheless fails to answer even one correctly), he asks Tom ridiculously complex, technical questions—and he is irate when Tom answers each one correctly and in great detail. It is only reluctantly and angrily that Spades announces Tom as the new winner.
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Jack Spades Character Timeline in Erasure
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...competitor, a white man from Indiana named Hal Dullard. The show begins. The host, Jack Spades, introduces Hal as a social worker, president of the PTA, and father of two. Spades...
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The show continues in this manner, with Spades posing painfully easy questions to Dullard, who confidently and unwittingly responds with incorrect answers. Tom,...
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