You answer "No" to a question. It's the opposite of "Yes".
You use "no" with a noun. no milk, no water, no need for apologies, no special way to do this, no problems, no quick solutions, no wild animals, no questions, no vegetables, ...
I thought there is something I don't know about 'no' as it is used in that sentence in my book.(my questions stuffs I found from this to 'universal quntifier'(you used this term) are from the same book! At least, this has turned out to be wrong.