located in the three overlapping circles (84 objects), priority 8 to objects in any two overlapping circles (715 objects), and priority 7 to sources in the non-overlapping areas (1635 objects). The lower numbers, in parenthesis, give the number of objects in the four observed fields followed by the number of spectroscopically confirmed AGN.[]{data-label="fig:VennCand"}](MQS_fig1.eps){width="8cm"}

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The total number of candidates is 2434, distributed over $\sim$30 deg$^2$ in the LMC. There are 2049 mid-IR-selected candidates and 385 non-mid-IR-selected candidates. Of the 2049 mid-IR (385 non-mid-IR) objects, 708 (355) are also variable and 160 (45) have associated X-ray emission. There are 1063 objects selected as variable, of which 708 are mid-IR sources, 99 are X-ray sources, and 84 both mid-IR and X-ray sources. Figure \[fig:VennCand\] shows how the samples overlap. Note that the limited overlap of the mid-IR and X-ray-selected AGNs is also seen in the spectroscopically confirmed samples of AGNs in the NDWFS field (e.g., @2011ApJ...728...56A). The AAOmega fiber allocation software allows to prioritize targets from 1 (the lowest priority) to 9. We gave priorities of 9, 8, and 7 to sources selected by all three methods (84 sources), sources selected by only two methods (715 sources), 