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.
Q: [14, 162, 33, 137, 151, 210, 248, 269, 24, 252, 114, 164, 104, 147, 259, 190, 197, 180, 289, 37], k=5
A:
104