How did the court know the judge was ready for bed?

Answer: He was wearing his robe.

More Classic Riddles with answers

More Classic Riddles

How do you communicate with a monster that lives on the seabed?
How do you make "one" disappear?
How do you make an orange giggle in the tub?
How do you spell hard water with three letters?
How high would you have to count before you would use the letter A in the English language spelling of a whole number?
How is it possible to always find what your looking for in the last place you look?
How is it that a person born in Massachusetts, whose parents were both born in Massachusetts, is not born a U.S. Citizen?
How many birth days does the average person have?
How many black beans will make five white ones?
How many seconds are there in one year?
I am a word of five letters. Take away my first and I am the name of what adorns the estate of many of the nobility of England. Take away my first and second, and I am the name of a place where all the world was once congregated. Take away my last, and I am the name of a beautiful mineral. Take away my two last, and I am the name of a fashionable place of resort. I am small in stature but capable of doing a great deal of mischief, as I once did in London in the year 1666. What word am I?
I am a word of three syllables, each of which is a word; my first is an article in common use; my second, an animal of uncommon intelligence; my third, though not an animal, is used in carrying burdens. My whole is a useful art. What am I?