We’ll take “What the Heck was That?” for $1,000, Alex.

Gov. Tom Wolf and his Republican challenger, Scott Wagner, met Monday night for the one and only gubernatorial debate before November’s General Election.

They accomplished very little, while the debate’s moderator, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, managed to monopolize a significant chunk of the 45 minutes — that’s right, just 45 minutes — the candidates spent on stage in Hershey, Pa.

Trebek’s performance was overwhelming (and not in a positive way), but the more pressing gripe people should have with Monday’s debate is that it will likely remain the only time Wolf and Wagner face each other in person during the final leg of this election cycle.

That may serve Wolf — ahead by double digits in the polls and outspending Wagner by about $10 million — well in his re-election campaign. But it serves Pennsylvanians very poorly and should dismay voters on both sides of the aisle.

All this got us thinking about other debates that will — or won’t — be held before voters hit the polls on Nov. 6.

There’s U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-3rd, and his Democratic challenger Ron DiNicola, who will meet Oct. 8 at Mercyhurst University in Erie for a debate amid the race for the newly-drawn 16th District, which includes most of western Butler County and a small portion of Cranberry Township.

We’re glad the candidates will be dueling face-to-face next week, but the overriding story continues to be what happens next. Both Kelly and DiNicola have proposed multiple debates and accused each other of failing to come to an agreement on when, where and how they will take place. The result: voters can only be sure of one face-to-face meeting between the candidates.

There’s also the race for the new 17th District, which includes a portion of Cranberry Township. Congressmen Conor Lamb, D-18th and Keith Rothfus, R-12th will meet for a single, televised debate on Oct. 16.

And then there’s the race for the new 15th District, which includes most of eastern Butler County, between congressman Glenn Thompson, R-5th, and Democratic challenger Susan Boser — for which there are precisely zero debates scheduled.

Regardless of whom you plan to support in November, in any of these races, we should all be able to agree that this represents a sorry state of affairs in Pennsylvania politics.

In 2014, when Wolf defeated incumbent Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, the embattled Corbett agreed to three debates — a move that Wolf himself applauded. It’s too bad he didn’t follow his predecessor’s example.

For our trio of congressional races, the same rule applies. Candidates should feel an obligation to appear in a public setting and answer questions that help voters suss out their temperament, the issues most important to them, and how they would conduct themselves if they are ultimately sent to Washington to do the people’s business.

While we don’t expect these candidates to constantly debate each other, one debate is not enough to accomplish that task.

It would not be enough even if these men and women were running in districts that were already moderately familiar with them. And it is certainly not enough now that they are running in districts only recently redrawn by the state Supreme Court.

The general election is nearly upon us. Now is the time to rectify this grievous error in judgment and give voters what they deserve.