In its second annual ranking of "America's Smartest (and Dumbest) Cities," the Daily Beast website credits Cleveland as the 17th smartest big city with one million people or more. That puts us ahead of Chicago (#24), Atlanta (#28), Dallas (#41), and Las Vegas (#55).

Crunching figures that take into account per-capita numbers of libraries, residents with bachelor's and graduate degrees, nonfiction book sales, and institutions of higher education, the survey determined the comparative IQs of America's metropolitans.

The CLE+ numbers:

Metropolitan area population: 2,091,286

Bachelor's degrees: 17%

Graduate degrees: 10%

Year-to-date adult nonfiction book sales: 2,024,000

Thanks to a reworked formula, Cleveland jumped from its last-year position of #31.

See the other smart (and not-so-smart) cities here.