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: [86, 198, 236, 176, 174, 224, 164, 37, 22, 88, 61, 191, 235, 181, 268, 275, 226, 78, 68, 270], k=11
A: 
181