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: [61, 280, 285, 77, 54, 21, 204, 118, 170, 89, 93, 80, 215, 296, 184, 38, 68, 144, 121, 207], k=6
A: 
77