Intellect/Clever/"Smart"

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I've always wondered what makes someone "intelligent" or "clever" outside of obvious extreme achievements (which can depend greatly on one's opportunities, luck, and circumstances e.g: Newton v. Leibniz in who is credited with certain discoveries). How does any one person go about brandying adjectives indiscriminately such as smart or clever and the like?

Who determines whether one is "smart" or intellectual or whatever? What determines this? Does anyone believe in the multiple-intelligences theories?
What about the fluid versus crystalized intelligence? How do thinking patterns intersect with intellect? For example, in her recent book Ms.Grandin describes 3 types of thinking in pictures, verbal, and patterns. Do any of these correlate with intellect?
I've also read somewhere about autistics being systemizers. Some have made claims that this quality is expressed differently in male/female autistics. In typical male-fashion they look at things like precise engineering and the like whereas for women this can take the form of extreme and meticulous organizing (of the home I suppose), those intense Pinterest boards (just as examples). Systemization the collection of facts and information- isn't that some sort of prerequisite to a genuine form of intellect?

What does the value of intellect even come to be if the vast majority of people aren't extremely intellectual and it's not really necessary in a life honestly.