Dune Connection Combat: Zendaya vs. Sting

Question

Following this week's "Dune" family connection theme, our Connection Combat game features mononymous movie stars Zendaya, from the 2024 film, and Sting, from the 1984 version.

Here's how the game is played:

1. Check your connection to Sting and Zendaya (click "Connection to Me" in each profile pull-down menu).
2. Click "Answer this post" below. Choose Team Sting or Team Zendaya and say how many degrees are in your chosen connection path.
3. Verify each relationship along your connection path with a reliable source [more explanation].
4. Post a comment below your answer here as soon as you're done.

The players with the closest verified connection wins!

There are seven additional ways to win and enter the Connection Combat Hall of Fame. These require clearing your path of any and all little "WikiTree Weevils."

This game runs from March 19 - March 26. Winners will be announced on March 27.

Do you want to help others? We call this "combat" just for fun. It's really more about collaboration than competition. Please participate in your team's Aid Station and stop by when you have questions or problems.

• Team Sting Aid Station
• Team Zendaya Aid Station

You can also chat live on Discord. See the Connection Combat help page for more information.

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WINNERS:

Winner: Jean Paradis (20), Team Zendaya

• Gold Hero: Jean Paradis (20) Zendaya
• Silver Hero: Erin Breen (23) Sting
• Bronze Hero: Kevin Smith (25) Zendaya]]
• Gold Veteran: Mildred Wheeler (35) Sting
• Silver Veteran: Laura Franks (27) Sting
• Bronze Veteran: Carol-Lynn Harke (27) Sting
• Scout: Kevin Smith (25) Zendaya]]
• Medics: Mildred Wheeler (117)
• Double Agents: Mildred Wheeler
• Peacemaker: N/A
• International Legionnarie: N/A

Answer 1

Well, at 26 degrees it's Team Zendaya for me! And it's through a line for me that hasn't come up yet so it'll be fun to see what's going on there. 

Answer 2

Team Zendaya for me at 25 degrees, completed.  This was a new line, so it took a little more work to verify.

Answer 3

Team Zendaya 31 degrees

Team Sting Sumner 33 degrees

Answer 4

Team Zendaya!

23 Degrees from Zendaya.

28 Degrees from Sting.

Answer 5

Team Zendaya prances ahead of Team Sting at 23 degrees distant versus 30 degrees.

Answer 6

Team Zendaya is 25 degrees, six branches (5-4-3-3-3-8) versus Team Sting's 27 degrees, seven branches (8-4-5-3-2-4-2)

0. Zendaya M.Coleman, Coleman-4442

1. private person

2. their father, Stoermer-61

3. his mother, Peir-5

4. her sister, Peir-10

5. her husband, Hoyt-5782, 9c, 1r, mrca Harding-353, Baldwin-268

6. his mother, Hoyt-5784, 8c, 2r, mrca Harding-353, Baldwin-268

7. her father, Hoyt-5792, 7c, 3r, mrca Harding-353, Baldwin-268

8. his step-mother, Sabin-165, 6c, 4r, mrca Harding-353, Baldwin-268

9. her husband, Hoyt-660, 6c, 3r mrca Unknown-45356, Crispe-15

10. his father, Hoyt-1327

11. his sister, Hoyt-1351

12. her husband, Livermore-665, 5c, 4r, mrca Penn-117, Wheeler-219

13. his mother, Stratton-4119, 4c, 5r, mrca Penn-117, Wheeler-219

14. her brother, Stratton-4038, 4c, 5r, mrca Penn-117, Wheeler-219

15. his wife, Russell-27797

16. her father, Russell-13044

17. his brother, Russell-12592

18. his wife, Wheeler-6999, 4th great-grandaunt, mrca Colburn-559, Wheeler-4922

19. her brother, Wheeler-5189, 4th great grandfather, mrca Wheeler-219, Penn-117

20. his son, Wheeler-5195, 3rd great grandfather, mrca Wheeler-219, Penn-117

21. his son, Wheeler-18871, 2nd great grandfather, mrca Wheeler-219, Penn-117

22. his son, Wheeler-18812, great grandfather, mrca Wheeler-219, Penn-117

23. his son, Wheeler-18807, grandfather, mrca Wheeler-219, Penn-117

24. his son, Wheeler-18911, father, mrca Wheeler-219, Penn-117

25. his daughter, Wheeler-18799 (me)

Team Sting 27 degrees, seven branches (8-4-5-3-2-4-2)

0. Sting M Sumner CBE, Sumner-966

1. his father, Sumner-973

2. his father, Sumner-1100

3. his father, Sumner-1099

4. his father, Sumner-1098

5. his sister, Sumner-645

6. her daughter, Linthorne-1

7. her daughter, Beckley-100

8. her husband, McKinnon-433

9. his father, McKinnon-453

10. his mother, McLeod-977

11. her brother, McLeod-4164

12. his wife, Ross-32695

13. her father, Ross-32696

14. his brother, Ross-13545

15. his son, Ross-13535

16. his son, Ross-13162

17. his wife, Klassen-498

18. her father, Klassen-497

19. his sister, Klassen-506

20. her husband, Thielmann-28

21. his sister, Thielmann-75

22. her husband, Andres-715

23. his brother, Andres-766

24. his daughter, Andres-765

25. her daughter, Gerl-18

26. her ex-husband, Wheeler-18833

27, his sister, Wheeler-18799 (me)

Zendaya Coleman, Coleman-4442, three branches (7-9-10)

0. Zendaya M. Coleman, Coleman-4442

1. private person

2. their father, Stoermer-61

3. his father, Stoermer-62

4. his father, Stoermer-63

5. his sister, Stoermer-73

6. her daughter, Dugan-2091

7. her husband, Wyckoff-1707, 8c, 2r, mrca De_Marets-12, Seubering-1

8. his father, Wyckoff-430, 7c, 3r, mrca De_Marets-12, Seubering-1

9. his mother, Garretson-147

10. her father, Garretson-148

11. his mother, Ditmars-64

12. her father, Ditmars-17

13. his mother, Remsen-28

14. her father, Remsen-2

15. his brother, Remsz-1

16. his wife, Dame-248, 6th great-grandaunt

17. her sister, Jans-1918, 6th great grandmother

18. her son, Parmentier-7, 5th great grandfather

19. his son, Parmentier-144, 4th great grandfather

20. his son, Polmanteer-68, 3rd great grandfather

21. his son, Palmateer-67, 2nd great  grandfather

22. his daughter, Palmateer-1115, great grandmother

23. her son, Wheeler-18807, grandfather

24. his son, Wheeler-18911, father

25. his daughter, Wheeler-18799 (me)

Team Sting 35 degrees, seven branches (8-1-7-4-2-7-7)

0. Sting M Sumner, Sumner-966

1. his mother, Cowell-500

2. her mother, Hill-59007

3. her father, Hill- 61680

4. his mother, Ramshaw-252

5. her mother, Redhead-548

6. her brother, Redhead-550

7. his daughter, Redhead-524

8. her husband, Glasglow-516

9. his wife, Rae-783

10. her father, Rae-782

11. his brother, Rae-775

12. his daughter, Rae-2159

13. her son, Cormack-676

14. his son, Cormack-675

15.  private person

16. their husband, King-49676

17. his mother, Crutchley-160

18. her father, Crutchley-161

19. his brother, Crutchley-98

20. his wife, Hopkins-9372

21. her brother, Hopkins-5737

22. his wife, Lawrence-6369

23. her brother, Lawrence-6349

24. his daughter, Lawrence-6306

25. her daughter, Walmsley-377

26. her son, Carlson-1935

27. private person

28. private person

29. private person

30. private person

31. their father, Finnie-346

32. his mother, Wurtz-293

33. her sister, Wirtz-484

34. private person

35. their sister, Mildred Wheeler, Wheeler-18799 (me)

Comments

In your first Zendaya system, link 8, Sabin is not Hoyt's mother, but rather his step-mother. I have corrected the profile.

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Thank you, Jean, for correcting the Sabin-165 profile.

Answer 7

It's kind of interesting that everyone else who has posted so far is closer to Zendaya than Sting, and I'm closer to Sting this week at 23 degrees. (25 for me and Zendaya.) Team Sting, I guess!

Answer 8

28 degrees for both! I'm going with Team Zendaya - loved her in The Greatest Showman.

Answer 9

Team Zendaya at 26 degrees.

Answer 10

The newsletter said I was 25 degrees, but after running the connection finder, I'm 24 degrees from ... Zendaya.

Answer 11

Team Zendaya -- 25 degrees to me

Answer 12

Zendaya was closer to me at 24 degrees, but I couldn't seem to get through the connections even though I tried different ways half a dozen times.  I went and tried Sting and accomplished a route at 27 degrees.  This was the hardest one yet for me... but interesting, lots of Scottish and English people.

1. Sting, Sumner-966
2. Audrey Cowell-500
3. Margaret Hill-59007
4. Robert Hill-61680
5. Eleanor Ramshaw-252
6. Mary Redhead-548
7. John Redhead-550
8. Elizabeth Redhead-524
9. Andrew Glasgow-516
10. Jane Rae-783
11. Jane Aitchison-233
12. David Aitchison-549
13. Margaret Aitchison-564
14. Thomas Liddle-607
15. Robert Liddle-633
16. Helen Liddle-617
17. James Crow-3462
18. Thomas Crow-960
19. Jessie Crow-925
20. Thomas Paterson-844
21. James Paterson-653
22. Margaret Reid-2858
23. Isabella Reid-21487
24. William Young-53927
25. Hal Young-47278
26. Leone Finch-7441
27. My Dad
28. Myself Finch-7411

Answer 13

Team Sting - 24 degrees

Answer 14

Team Zendaya at 23 degrees --Sting is 30 degrees

Comments

The clean connection I found is 25 degrees=

     0. Zendaya

1. living parent
2. their father Phillip Stoermer
3. his father Fritz Stoermer
4. his father Henry Stoermer
5. his sister LuLu Stoermer
6. her daughter Jane Dugan
7. her husband Charles Wyckoff
8. his father Peter Wyckoff 
9. his father Garret Wyckoff
10. his father Garret Wyckoff 
11. his father Samuel Wyckoff
12. his sister Aaltje Wykhof
13. her husband Jacob Vanderveer
14. his brother David Van Der Veer
15. his son Tunis Van der Veer 
16. his son Benjamin Van der Veer 
17. his daughter Catherine Vanderveer
18. her daughter Hannah Throp 
19. her son Harley Kerns 
20. his wife Alice Price 
21. her brother Mitchell Price
22. his wife Dora Jones 
23. her brother James Jones
24. his son MY DAD
25. his daughter ME

Answer 15

26 degrees from Zendaya. Pretty cool. Funny how all my connections come from a common surname. So much fun.

Answer 16

Team Zendaya for me, at 20 degrees. I have been working on this line for 3 days- do I need a life, or what?  There are two links that would benefit from a record with both names on it, but I am satisfied that the links are correct. 

Zendaya Coleman→

1.[private person]→

2.✖Phillip Stoermer(their father)→

3.✖Marian Peir(his mother)→

4.✖Elizabeth Peir(her sister)→

5.✖Sheldon Hoyt(her husband)→

6.✖Jessie Hoyt(his mother)→

7.✖William Hoyt(her father)→

8.✖Sally Norris(his mother)→

9.✖Nathaniel Norris(her father)→

10.✖Nathaniel Norris(his father)→

11.✖David Norris(his brother)→

12.✖Nathaniel Norris(his son)→

13.✖Eliphalet Norris(his son)→

14.✖Elizabeth Gowing(his wife)→

15.✖Patience Gowing(her sister)→

16.✖Albert Garland(her son)→

17.✖Grace Garland(his daughter)→

18.✖Frances Burhart(her daughter)→

19.✖My mother (her daughter)→

20.  Me(her daughter)

Answer 17

I went with Sting at 28 degrees and it was going really well until I reached his Great Grandmother Annie Fowler (Brown) Sumner.  Her parents are recorded as Jane (Greenwell) Brown and Robert Brown.

However, her birth record on GRO lists her mother's maiden name as Greenwell.

I am confident in my connections from Myself to Robert Brown, but I don't believe that is the correct Robert Brown to link to Annie Fowler (Brown) Sumner.

0 Sting Sumner

1 Ernest Sumner (his father)

2 Thomas Sumner (his father)

3 Annie Brown (his mother)

4 Robert Brown (her father)

5 Thomas Brown (his brother)

6 Dorothy Gray (his wife)

7 Lawrence Gray (her brother)

8 John Gray (his son)

9 Claude Gray (his son)

10 Beatrice Dixon (his wife)

11 Norm Dixon (her father)

12 Henry Dixon (his brother)

13 Ann Harris (his wife)

14 John Harris (her father)

15 George Harris (his brother)

16 Mariah Loader (his wife)

17 Ann Loader (her sister)

18 William Coleman (her son)

19 Martha Stringham (her daughter)

20 Joseph Edmonds (her husband)

21 Francis Edmonds (his father)

22 William Edmonds (his brother)

23 Mary Edmonds (his daughter)

24 Susannah Aldridge (her daughter)

25 Edith Myall (her daughter)

26 My Grandmother (private)

27 My Mother (private)

28 ME! :)

Answer 18

Zendaya Coleman is 24 Degrees from S. Croisetiere

Guess it will be Zendaya me too !!!
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The ten others.....
 

Josh Brolin is 23 Degrees from S. Croisetiere

Timothée Chalamet is 21 Degrees from S. Croisetiere

José Ferrer is 24 Degrees from S. Croisetiere

Frank Herbert is 20 Degrees from S. Croisetiere

Richard Jordan is 22 Degrees from S. Croisetiere

irginia Madsen is 23 Degrees from S. Croisetiere

David Lynch is 23 Degrees from S. Croisetiere

Charlotte Rampling is 23 Degrees from S. Croisetiere

Patrick Stewart is 31 Degrees from S. Croisetiere

Denis Villeneuve is 15 Degrees from S. Croisetiere

Answer 19

I'm on Team Zendaya (Chani) at 23 degrees. (Feyd Rautha is at 26 degrees). I have no clue where I would find reliable sources to verify, but I do affirm my descent from the Ivins and Snow families through which we share a connection.