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: [85, 214, 295, 30, 46, 220, 137, 193, 126, 68, 66, 110, 24, 209, 142, 125, 61, 273, 144, 246], k=16
A: 
214