@ Jason: My thoughts exactly. It wasn't the *tone* that helped the guys who got A+ -it was the amp noise! I've been a fan of blind testing since reading through this post:
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/high-...back-test.html
Granted, the Guitar Squid quiz doesn't seem to qualify as a true abx blind test (at least as my blasted out brain understands it....), but the general concept of using one's ears to make audio judgements, versus hyped up psyche is a point well made. Having said that, I got a little 15W tube amp the other day and there's nothing like turning knobs and flicking switches to get that lucious "amp sim" tone (wink wink)