(CNN) -- If you placed bets on Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch joining the cast of "True Detective," it's time to collect your winnings.

After weeks of rumors, HBO has confirmed that McAdams, Kitsch and Kelly Reilly will also star in the second season of the network's acclaimed drama.

HBO, which shares a parent company with CNN, announced in September that Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn were going to be "True Detective's" season 2 leads.

The series, created and written by Nic Pizzolatto, follows a new story each season.

Its first season, which premiered earlier this year, focused on two detectives embroiled in a years-long hunt for a serial killer. It was an immediate hit, and at the 2014 Emmys "True Detective" picked up 12 nominations. That included two best lead actor in a drama nods for stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.

The second season still involves detective work, but this time around the story is set in California. According to HBO, this season "three police officers and a career criminal must navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder."

Colin Farrell plays a "compromised detective" named Ray Velcoro, "whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him." Vaughn stars as a criminal and entrepreneur named Frank Semyon, who's "in danger of losing his empire when his move into legitimate enterprise is upended by the murder of a business partner."

"Sherlock Holmes" actress Kelly Reilly will play the wife of Vaughn's character, and Rachel McAdams will play a county sheriff named Ani Bezzerides, whose "uncompromising ethics put her at odds with others and the system she serves." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. On which channel does True Detectives air?
2. Which season is soon to air?
3. Who will be the leads?
4. Who wrote the series?
5. Was the first season popular?
6. How many Emmy nominations did it receive?
7. Did it win any?
8. Who were the lead actors of the first season?
9. Who will play Ray Velcoro?
10. And who will Vince Vaughn play?
11. Who will play that character's wife?
12. Who will play the county sheriff?
13. Where will this season be set?
14. What was the premise of the first season?
15. What about the second season?
16. Is one of the characters in the new season a seasoned criminal?
17. Which character?
18. Is the police department honest?
19. Which character has strong ethics?
20. Who else struggles with corruption and criminal ties?
Answer: 1. HBO
2. Two
3. Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn
4. Nic Pizzolatto
5. Yes
6. 12
7. unknown
8. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson
9. Colin Farrell
10. Frank Semyon
11. Kelly Reilly
12. Rachel McAdams
13. in California
14. It focused on two detectives embroiled in a years-long hunt for a serial killer
15. The second season still involves detective work
16. Yes
17. Frank Semyon
18. No
19. Ani Bezzerides does
20. Ray Velcoro

San Antonio ( Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh-most populous city in the United States and the second-most populous city in Texas. Founded as a Spanish mission and colonial outpost in 1718, the city became the first chartered civil settlement in Texas in 1731, making it the state's oldest municipality. The city's deep history is contrasted with its rapid growth: it was the fastest growing of the top ten largest cities in the United States from 2000 to 2010, and the second from 1990 to 2000. Straddling the regional divide between South and Central Texas, San Antonio anchors the southwestern corner of an urban megaregion colloquially known as the "Texas Triangle".

San Antonio serves as the seat of BexarCounty. Recent annexations have extended the city's boundaries into Medina County and, though for only a very tiny area near the city of Garden Ridge, into Comal County. Since San Antonio was founded during the Spanish Colonial Era, it has a church (San Fernando Cathedral) in its center, along with a main civic plaza accompanying it in front, a characteristic which is also found in some other Spanish-founded cities, towns, and villages in Spain and Latin America. Due to its placement, the city has characteristics of other western urban centers in which there are sparsely populated areas and a low density rate outside of the city limits. San Antonio is the center of the San AntonioNew Braunfels Metropolitan Statistical Area. Commonly referred to as Greater San Antonio, the metropolitan area has a population of 2,454,061 based on the 2017 US Census estimate, making it the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States and third-largest in the state of Texas. Growth along the Interstate 35 and Interstate 10 corridors to the north, west and east make it likely that the metropolitan area will continue to expand. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is this about?
2. Where is that?
3. Is it the most populated city there?
4. What ranking is it?
5. What about in the country?
6. What was it started as?
7. What else?
8. When?
9. Is it an old city there?
10. What is in the center of it?
11. What building, in the town?
12. What is it called?
13. What is in front of that?
14. Where else is that found?
15. Is it thickly populated out of town?
16. What is it the corner of?
17. Which side?
18. What is that?
19. What county is it in?
20. How many people live there?
Answer: 1. San Antonio
2. Texas
3. No.
4. Second in Texas.
5. Seventh in the United States.
6. A Spanish mission.
7. A colonial outpost.
8. 1718
9. Yes.
10. Texas.
11. A church.
12. San Fernando Cathedral
13. A civic plaza.
14. In villages in Spain and Latin America.
15. No.
16. The "Texas Triangle".
17. The southwestern corner.
18. An urban megaregion.
19. BexarCounty.
20. unknown

Kievan Rus' begins with the rule (882912) of Prince Oleg, who extended his control from Novgorod south along the Dnieper river valley in order to protect trade from Khazar incursions from the east and moved his capital to the more strategic Kiev. Sviatoslav I (died 972) achieved the first major expansion of Kievan Rus' territorial control, fighting a war of conquest against the Khazar Empire. Vladimir the Great (9801015) introduced Christianity with his own baptism and, by decree, that of all the inhabitants of Kiev and beyond. Kievan Rus' reached its greatest extent under Yaroslav I (10191054); his sons assembled and issued its first written legal code, the Rus' Justice, shortly after his death.

The term "Kievan Rus'" ( Kievskaya Rus') was coined in the 19th century in Russian historiography to refer to the period when the centre was in Kiev. In English, the term was introduced in the early 20th century, when it was found in the 1913 English translation of Vasily Klyuchevsky's A History of Russia, to distinguish the early polity from successor states, which were also named Rus. Later, the Russian term was rendered into Belarusian and Ukrainian as Kijeuskaja Rus' and Kyivs'ka Rus', respectively. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. When did Kievan Rus' began?
2. by whom?
3. When did they change their religion?
4. who was the leader?
5. how did he do it?
6. What was Prince Oleg trying to protect?
7. When did the name start being used?
8. why?
9. Why was it moved there
10. how did they have their first major expansion
11. What was issued?
12. by whom?
13. what else was he known for?
14. who did they fight against?
Answer:
1. 882
2. unknown
3. Sometime between 9801015
4. Vladimir the Great
5. with his own baptism
6. trade
7. 19th century
8. to refer to the period when the centre was in Kiev
9. unknown
10. war
11. legal code
12. Yaroslav I's sons
13. Kievan Rus' reaching its greatest extent
14. unknown