Q: 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.
[99, 188, 61, 114, 72, 137, 222, 220, 19, 109, 140, 224, 286, 253, 226, 64, 258, 131, 170, 67], k=2
A:
61