Modern World
A hope of joining this alliance is in Ukraine's constitution
NATO
"Life in the Dreamhouse" is the subtitle of an online show named for this doll
Barbie
Host of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, this city also hosted the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, becoming the first city to host both
Beijing
Head to this state to visit the Mendenhall Glacier & the Mendenhall Ice Caves (but hurry--the ice is melting)
Alaska
In 2015, the New Horizons space probe did a close fly-by of this dwarf planet; the first spacecraft to visit up close
Pluto
There are actually world championships for the trading card game & video game featuring these "pocket monsters"
Pokémon
He led the NBA in scoring 7 straight times, won 5 MVPs (& hit .202 for a minor league team in 1994, but let's not dwell on that)
Michael Jordan
This granite boulder is in Pilgrim Memorial State Park in Massachusetts
Plymouth Rock
Being one of the 7 wonders of the modern world, it is located in the Andes Mountains near Cuzco and also known as the "lost" city of the Incas
Machu Picchu
Players stack & remove wooden blocks in this game whose name is from Swahili for "to build"
Jenga
Pele was only 17 when he first played for this country in 1958--it would win 3 World Cups with him
Brazil
Partly because it was a monosyllable, this word was chosen as "a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission"
meme
A group of ninjas fight using a style of martial art called Spinjitzu in this line from LEGO
Ninjago
Of the 5 California MLB teams, the one that plays its home games the farthest south
(San Diego) Padres
In the opening scene of its July 21, 1969 pilot episode, a man carves the letter D into wet cement
Sasame Street