Final Jeopardy: 18th Century Novels (6-5-20)

The players missed two clues in the JUST DESERTS category in the second round of the 6/5/2020 Jeopardy! game:

($400) Home to Burning Man, Black Rock Desert is in the northwest part of this state
($800) The Taklamakan desert spans over 100,000 square miles of the Uyghur autonomous region in this country
($1200) “P” is for this desert that takes up large parts of Argentina & Chile
($1600) Named for a founding father of Israel, Ben-Gurion University of this desert area is a leading research university
($2000) Locals call the bleak Skeleton Coast where the Atlantic meets this desert “The Land God Made in Anger”

ANSWERS: show

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues: ACTORS & ACTRESSES:
($400) The divorcing spouses in “Marriage Story” were played by Adam Driver & her
($800) Josh O’Connor played budding writer Lawrence Durrell on “The Durrells in Corfu”; on Season 3 of “The Crown”, he’s this royal son
($1200) She based her stage name on the word “awkward”, which she says describes her
($1600) If you really want to call this young actor by his name, pronounce it the French way, Tim-o-tay
($2000) Not many actors do cranky as well as this man, who plays Norman on “The Kominsky Method”

ANSWERS: show