Lobe on the range: Kansas City is the 12th smartest city in the U.S.

Kansas City is the 12th smartest city in America, in spite of all you Jane Austen fans.

The Daily Beast has come up with IQ scores for U.S. cities. The numbers are based on college degrees and non-fiction book sales, which should annoy self-educated Dickens adherents. Boston is No. 1 in brain power by these measures. Las Vegas, a city Tiger Woods liked to visit for reasons other than the quality of the book clubs, finished last.