The basic information for each field is given in Table \[tab:MQSfields\]. The fields overlap slightly to avoid having gaps between them, so some of the quasar candidates were observed up to three times if they happened to fall into such an overlapping region. The total number of targeted objects in all 12 fields was 2678, of which several (less than 244) were targeted at least twice. On average there were 220 objects in a field, corresponding to $\sim$70 sources deg$^{-2}$.

We observed the LMC fields on 2011 February 1–3. Unfortunately, due to arrival of tropical storm Yasi, we were completely clouded out on the night of February 2 and partly on February 1 and 3. Of the 12 planned fields, we were able to execute only four (see Table \[tab:MQSfields\] and Figure \[fig:MQS\_LMC\_fields\]), and only one with the desired 1.5 hr (5400 s) exposure time. Nevertheless, the data are sufficient to confirm a large number of quasars. We observed [845 ]{}candidates of which we confirm [169 ]{}([144 ]{}new) in this paper. The yields divided by the AGN selection method are presented in Table \[tab:selectionresults\].

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We followed the spectral identification procedures from Paper I (@2011ApJS..194...22K). To find as many quasar 