brights

It suggested referring to smart people as, not 'nerds' but 'brights'.

He died of 'Brights Disease', a disease of the kidneys from which he had been suffering for some time.

He was named one of Scotland's 'Brights' in a list of the 50 top Scottish intellectuals, artists, lawyers, scientists, etc. (Herald Magazine, 2001).

The journalist and noted atheist Christopher Hitchens likewise found it a "cringe-making proposal that atheists should conceitedly nominate themselves to be called 'brights.'"

In it, a super-genius child classifies humans into a very few 'Brights' like herself, a huge majority of 'Stupids', and a minority of 'Tweens', the merely ordinary geniuses.