Tom Wahzetepe is a character in one of Monk’s short stories. In the story, he is invited to compete on a trivia game show alongside Hal Dullard, a white man from Indiana who is portrayed as being a good father and an upstanding member of his community. The game show is obviously rigged—while the host, Jack Spades, selects impossibly difficult questions for Tom to answer, he asks Dullard ridiculously easy ones. Despite Tom’s humble background and lack of a formal education, he answers all his questions correctly and is deemed the show’s winner—much to the anger and shock of Spades and the audience.