In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.

Example input: [163, 290, 90, 51, 96, 86, 282, 265, 10, 85, 91, 201, 68, 126, 26, 228, 229, 236, 31, 71], k=14
Example output: 201
Example explanation: 201 is the 14th smallest element in the input list.
Q: [207, 198, 256, 176, 228, 201, 72, 241, 284, 203, 28, 230, 223, 80, 249, 266, 111, 98, 104, 170], k=8
A:
176